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Does Price Make the Whiskey? Notes on a $13-to-$200 Blind Tasting

The premise is the oldest bar-stool argument there is, dressed up for a camera: line up a range of whiskeys from a $13 bottle to a $200 one, strip the labels, and see whether the palate can tell what the price tag insists is true. It's a good question — maybe the only honest way to ask it — because once the glass is anonymous, all the marketing money in the world stops speaking for the liquid…

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The Private-Estate Bachelorette: Wine Country Where the House Is the Party

There's a version of the group getaway that skips the club line entirely, and wine country makes the strongest case for it. Instead of a hotel corridor and a shared pool deck, the "hotel" is a private estate all your own — vineyard views out the back, a lap pool long enough to actually swim in, and a chef who comes to you. The team's read is that Napa and Sonoma have quietly become the…

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Which whiskey is better? Wrong question.

The question lands in our inbox every few months: which whiskey is better? The team keeps arriving at the same answer, which is that it's the wrong question.

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