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Ethan Fixell

Food & Wine magazine

New York, NY, United States

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Past:
  • Food & Wine magazine
  • AskMen
  • Tasting Table
  • Vanity Fair
  • Quartz
  • MTV News

Past articles by Ethan:

Everything You Need to Host Your Own Scotch Tasting Party

Here's how to host a Scotch whisky tasting the right way, with the best Scotch glasses and methods for tasting Scotch. → Read More

4 Must-Visit Winemakers of Barolo and Barbaresco

These four wineries not only represent some of the best Piedmont has to offer—they also help illustrate the greatest differences between Barolo and Barbaresco, and the range of unique qualities one can find within each. → Read More

10 Steps To Dating Your Friend's Sister

Here's how to do it the right way so you don't risk losing your friend. → Read More

Whiskey Lovers, Here's Why You Should Be Drinking Cognac Instead

It’s a craft product that can be imitated, but not replicated anywhere else in the world. → Read More

Whiskey Lovers, Here's Why You Should Be Drinking Cognac Instead

It’s a craft product that can be imitated, but not replicated anywhere else in the world. → Read More

A Cheap Person's Guide to Fancy French Wine

We asked four Master Somms from around the country to name some of the best wine steals in the seven most prestigious wine regions of France. → Read More

A Cheap Person's Guide to Fancy French Wine

We asked four Master Somms from around the country to name some of the best wine steals in the seven most prestigious wine regions of France. → Read More

The Hidden (Affordable!) Gems of Burgundy

While Burgundy gets most of its notoriety—both in price and quality—from its Premier Cru and Grand Cru classified wines, these bottles only make up a → Read More

The Hidden (Affordable!) Gems of Burgundy

While Burgundy gets most of its notoriety—both in price and quality—from its Premier Cru and Grand Cru classified wines, these bottles only make up a combined total of less than 20 percent of the region’s output. The real value can be found in Village wine (about 36 percent of all production), which is less refined than cru wine made from grapes grown on specifically → Read More

Meet the Man Running One of the Best Little Breweries You've Never Heard of

When you think world-class breweries in America, the first places that comes to mind might be California or Oregon or Colorado. But tiny Vermont can d... → Read More

How to Tour The Best of San Diego's Beer Scene in 48 Hours

Visiting 10 San Diegan breweries in 48 hours isn't a great idea any way you cut it: at best, you'll only have a brief amount of time to enjoy the ma.. → Read More

The Ultimate Off-the-Beaten-Path Culinary Road Trip

Here are the best restaurants, breweries, bakeries and farms that have cropped up in previously uncharted pockets of North Carolina. → Read More

What Are Coolship-Brewed Beers, and Why Should You Care?

Allagash Brewing gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the coolship beer-brewing process, a bygone technique that started in Belgium in the 1900s. → Read More

4 Master Sommeliers on the Reality of the Job Today

"Four Master Sommeliers walk into a bar." The sentence sounds like the setup to a joke your wine-geek uncle would tell—but it did in fact happen on a chilly afternoon in January at New York's Lupulo. (Okay, so the four master sommeliers walked into an excellent Portuguese restaurant with a killer bar. Close enough.) The somms—Dustin Wilson of Verve Wine, KyungMoon Kim of The Modern, Alex LaPratt… → Read More

48 Wild Hours in Richmond with The Rappahannock Boys

An exclusive tour from the oyster kings of Virginia. → Read More

From An Unknown to A Power Player: Rodenbach Finally Brings Its Oldest (And Newest) Beer To America

Finally getting the appreciation it deserves, the fantastic Belgian brewery has hit the United States running. → Read More

How To Spend a Week At the Great American Beer Fest

One beer writer's play-by-play guide to traversing America's biggest and best beer festival. → Read More

The Quest for the Ultimate Shower Beer

Forgive me: I had no idea the "shower beer" was a thing. I mean, sure, I'd chugged my fair share of bathroom brewskis in my college days, but I didn't realize that drinking beer in the shower had become an actual phenomenon—much less a legitimate, commonly used term—until a friend of mine told me to Google the phrase. I was blown away. And so, as an experienced beer writer (and Certified… → Read More

A Beer Lover's 48 Hour Guide to Portland

If you only have 48 hours in Portland – regularly cited as the city with the most breweries of any in the w → Read More

The Best Greek Wines to Pour at a Picnic

Greek wines deserve an invite to your picnic. → Read More