The problem with winter is that you can be done with it long before it’s done with you. For me, it always hits around mid-February: That feeling when you wake up and with heavy lids look outside to ...

Apple-based spirits don’t get the respect they deserve. Sure, ardent fans appreciate their versatility in cocktails and how delicious they can be when sipped on their own. But their grape-based ...

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Prairie Rose is Food & Wine's senior drinks editor. A trained sommelier, cocktail book author, and wine and spirits educator, in addition to Food & Wine she is also the senior editor of Liquor.com.

Most seasons have a signature cocktail. We drink fresh and fruity in the summer, brown and brooding in the winter. But what do we drink in the fall, other than apple cider? Apple-cider cocktails.

In 2023, when a late-spring frost devastated many Vermont apple orchards, Shelburne Orchards was among the few spared. Not so this year. The popular pick-your-own orchard lost about 80 percent of its ...

Watershed Distillery’s Apple Brandy is both modern and historic — a nod to Ohio’s agricultural roots and America’s early distilling traditions. Oddly enough, the idea started with vodka, explained ...