Wine, beer, and other potent potables.

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• Cheap Bubbles Inexpensive sparkling wines to drink on New Year's Eve.
  Mike Steinberger Dec. 24, 2008
  
• The Long, Slow, Torturous Death of Zima Fourteen years after its heyday, Zima is finally at peace.
  Brendan I. Koerner Nov. 26, 2008
  
• What To Drink on Thanksgiving Zinfandels that won't overwhelm your turkey.
  Mike Steinberger Nov. 21, 2008
  
• Good News About the Recession! Maybe restaurants will finally slash their exorbitant, ridiculous wine prices.
  Mike Steinberger Oct. 31, 2008
  
• Drinking Away Your Sorrows How has the financial crisis affected the wine world?
  Mike Steinberger Oct. 1, 2008
  
• The Last Great California Chardonnays Wines so lean and elegant they could be Burgundies.
  Mike Steinberger Sept. 17, 2008
  
• How Bureaucrats Are Wrecking French Wine It's time to throw out the rule book.
  Mike Steinberger Aug. 22, 2008
  
• Wineglasses Rising China's newfound obsession with wine.
  Mike Steinberger Aug. 8, 2008
  
• The Perfect Summer Wine What to drink at the beach.
  Mike Steinberger July 23, 2008
  
• Great Wine Bargains Exceptional bottles for less than 150 bucks.
  Mike Steinberger June 18, 2008
  
• Drinking on the Cheap Great wines for less than 15 bucks.
  Mike Steinberger May 14, 2008
  
• Sure Beats Manischewitz The revolution in kosher wine.
  Mike Steinberger April 18, 2008
  
• Cognac Attack! The king of brandies is back. Which ones are worth drinking?
  Mike Steinberger April 2, 2008
  
• A History of the Hangover Their prevalence during recessions; baseball and the hangover; the search for a cure; are all hangovers bad?
  Inigo Thomas March 26, 2008
  
• Shipping News Will Amazon.com end the war over direct wine deliveries?
  Mike Steinberger March 19, 2008
  
• Could a Coffee Maker Be Worth $11,000? How the Clover is changing the way we think about coffee.
  Paul Adams March 5, 2008
  
• A Taste of Honey Is mead poised for a comeback?
  Nicholas Day Feb. 27, 2008
  
• The Greatest Wine on the Planet How the '47 Cheval Blanc, a defective wine from an aberrant year, got so good.
  Mike Steinberger Feb. 13, 2008
  
• A Turn of the Corkscrew How American sommeliers put their French counterparts to shame.
  Mike Steinberger Jan. 2, 2008