Quick Sips: 4/8/15

Why sommeliers are more important than wine scores. Eater

Our beer editor embarks on a suds-soaked race from London to Mongolia—and lives to tell the tale. Roads and Kingdoms

David Wondrich learns the real origin of the word cocktail, and it’s not what you think. Grub Street

When not following the rules behind the bar becomes career suicide. Jeffrey Morgenthaler

LA’s longest-standing bartender is as awesome as you might imagine. Vice