Feats of Strength at the Cocktail Competition

Tasting 150 liquors in two days at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

The Colonel's Got Competition

Great eats in Louisville, Kentucky.

Derby Cocktail

Great preparation for your next Roller Derby competition.

I have tickets to this year’s California State Fair wine competition winners ‘drinkathon’. I have the day off so I have plenty of time to peruse the list of winners and make my game plan for the evening. To give...

Good Label, Bad Wine

CHOW tastes wines with great labels and discovers the duds.

Race to the Bottom

Is Charles Shaw Chardonnay the triumph-despite-adversity fairy tale of the wine world?

The Concord Fizz

From the Square Off tail competition finals, this grape-based tail is elegant and refreshing.

"An analysis of over 4000 wines entered in 13 U.S. wine competitions shows little concordance among the venues in awarding Gold medals. Of the 2,440 wines entered in more than three competitions, 47 percent received Gold medals,...

Just curious...I won the grand prize last year and placed this year but was curious to see who was lucky and inovative enough to win this year and get to go to Disney. The site said it would post the winner but I havent seen any...

I went a few years ago and vowed never to return. It was horrendously crowded (this was at Fort Mason) and the selection of wines being poured was mostly low quality mass-produced supermarket wines. Save your money for Rhone...

Zinfandel's Not the Ugly American

That loud, blowzy wine gets tamed.

10 Good Cheap Liquors

Tips from the experts on the best values in booze.

How to Eat More

Make room for the good stuff.

10 Organic Liquors

Make ecococktails at home.

Celebrity Booze

Drink what famous people are drinking, and making.