The Best Negroni I Ever Had
A veteran cocktail writer is reunited with a long-lost love, a continent away.
F&W Game Changer: No & Low
The booze-free shop making nonalcoholic bottles more accessible and exciting.
F&W Game Changers: Sanzo
The cans shaking up the seltzer industry with Asian-inspired flavors.
Drinks Innovators of the Year
This new annual accolade from Food & Wine highlights the extraordinary creativity and ambition — practical, social, cultural, and beyond — that’s going on in the drinks space right now. Taken together, the Drinks Innovators, eight individuals working in the wine, spirits, beer, and non-alcoholic beverage realm, illustrate where the entire drinks industry is going. And they all have products that consumers can get their hands on right now. This is what the future tastes like.
Drinks Innovators of the Year: Fawn Weaver and Victoria Eady Butler
Uncle Nearest CEO Fawn Weaver and master blender Victoria Eady Butler are carving out an ever-growing space for Black female voices in the whiskey world.
Drinks Innovators of the Year: Dan Petroski
Napa's iconoclastic winemaker sees the future of the Massican brand in vermouth, beer, body products, gin, coffee, a magazine, emojis, NFTs, virtual vineyards, and beyond.
