Wine & Bar

A great non-alcoholic drink tastes as complex as an alcoholic cocktail and equally celebratory. We sipped 24 non-alcoholic beverages to find the standouts.

While testing Winc, a popular wine club, we discovered that it had poor customer service, aggressive business tactics, and mediocre wine. We don’t recommend it.

Experts recommend their top picks for books, bottles, and barware for the cocktail lover in your life (with ideas for teetotalers, too).

White- or private-label wines can offer a good value if you know what to buy. But often bottles sold through wine clubs aren’t the best quality and are overpriced.

After researching over 100 wine clubs, we found three great ones that fit a range of preferences. We also suggest other good clubs for more-specific needs.

Leave your bottles in the wine cellar. These are the boxed and canned wines that Wirecutter staffers love.

We tasted 12 London Dry gins, mixing up martinis, Negronis, and gin and tonics to find our five favorites.

We tried several ready-to-drink classic cocktails— margaritas, Moscow mules, and Negronis—to find the best ones for summer sipping.

A wine fridge will protect your bottles and improve your drinking experience. We like the Wine Enthusiast Classic 70 Dual Zone and the single-zone Classic 80.

After tasting wine in nearly 100 glasses with several experts, we think the best everyday wine glass is the Libbey Signature Kentfield Estate All-Purpose Glass.

Manufacturers of even the thinnest, most expensive stemware recommend washing wine glasses in the dishwasher.

We have barware recommendations for outfitting a stylish and functional bar at home, with options for every skill level.

There are a million and one ways to homebrew. Here’s the (relatively) simple kit that one obsessive brewer has developed over four years of trial and error.

After more than 60 hours of research and testing, and many dropped glasses, we think the durable Bormioli Rocco Rock Bar is the best all-purpose drinking glass.

Thanks to its consistently excellent performance and beautiful handling, the Stanley Classic Easy-Pour is the growler to get.

Although you can spend plenty of money on a gadgety wine opener, every wine expert we spoke to prefers a simple, double-hinged corkscrew. We especially like True Fabrications' Truetap.