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Articles By Amy Zavatto

Amy Zavatto is a Staten Island-based writer who was bound to end up writing about booze, as her grandfather was a home wine-making Italian immigrant and her dad is a Scotch-loving butcher. Her favorite cocktail is the Manhattan and all its variations.

Grapes? Apples? Plums? For winemakers, it's all fair game when it comes to co-fermentation.

long island

Something new is brewing on eastern Long Island.

Contributor Amy Zavatto waxes poetic about the minty green Grasshopper, which has lately been dusted off and riffed upon by some of cocktail culture’s best talents.

rusty nail

Contributor Amy Zavatto shares how she went from hating Scotch to loving the Rusty Nail.

What wine mailing list should you be on right now? From easy-access allocations to the most exclusive, here are a few worth investigating.

french wines

orange wine

Meet orange wine—white wine that's been left to get chummy with the grape skins and seeds.

ice wine

Ice wine is nothing less than a second-harvest miracle and, in all likelihood, one discovered by accident.

tea blending

tempranillo

pop up coffee shops

virginia's wine country

second label wine

roses

Oh, the secrets that lay beneath Alice Feiring’s bed. Stan Methany stows his beloveds in a cave, among other dark and chilly nooks. And Melissa Clark? Well, she gets a gleam in her eye when she talks about the babies in her basement. But this isn’t the beginning of a gruesome tale. This is a story about juicy love.