EDGE Las Vegas

The holidays are a wonderful time to celebrate our community’s diversity. Whether your prefer vodka or rum, straight up or on the rocks; celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Diwali, Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice, we’ve got cocktails for all.

All through the holiday season, you just want to stuff your face - but don’t forget to share the bounty. In the spirit of St. Nick, offer your friends and family some of the best tastes of the season.

Oxley Gin uses 14 botanicals for a fresh, bright palate unlike any other gin. It also makes for the Best. Martini. Ever. Doing the research to find this out was grueling, but EDGE was up to the task...

The third annual Appleton Estate ReMixology Challenge came to Boston recently. Five local bartenders presented a panel of judges with their rum-based concoctions, while the crowd sampled five new cocktails. Needless to say, a good time was had by all!

This hi-tech age of ours is more than email, music files, and movies on your smart phone: Enter the virtual tasting for fans of wines and spirits!

If you’ve a friend fortunate enough to have secured a summer sanctuary and if you’re fortunate enough to have secured a weekend invitation, then at least have the decency to arrive with a host/ess gift - and without a list of demands.

It’s not always about vodka - and martinis in summer can knock you out for the night. And it’s not always about gin-and-tonics - not unless your name is Muffy. Sometimes you want a little bit of tropics - even on the mainland.

With a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, verdant forests, shimmering lakes, and a dramatic coastline, Chile possesses landscapes of breathtaking beauty, all basking in a climate that’s nearly an amalgam of the wine regions of California and France.

The lightness and spirit of a good white wine together with the rich nose and artfully interacting flavors of a full bodied red. That was the case at this year’s Wines de Provence event in Boston.

With longer days come longer evenings; the sun no longer sets before we leave the office - and instead, there’s plenty of time to grab a couple bottles of wine and rustle up a meal for those whose faces we want to see again.