From taxidermy squirrels and fine dining to feisty females and top-end Champagne, our top 10 features regularly swing from the sublime to the ridiculous without batting an eyelid.
Here, we round up the top 10 features of 2014 that attracted the most attention from our online readers based on page views.
Click through to find out which of our top 10s hit it big online in 2014…
Working in the wine trade is a job many in the industry treasure, allowing them to combine a personal love of wine with an exciting career. Whether it’s sampling wines on the tasting room floor, harvesting the grapes or calling the shots as a brand owner, the world of wine offers a host of opportunities for the enthusiastic and energetic wine lover.
Scroll through to see our pick of some of the best jobs in the world of wine…
In this instalment of our global drinks brands report, compiled in partnership with Euromonitor International, we revealed the world’s top 10 biggest beer brands of 2013.
Every year the drinks business Brands Report compiles profiles of the world’s biggest brands based on consumption volumes. With China set to become the world’s biggest beer market by 2017, it seems appropriate that this year’s beer report was dominated by the country’s big brands which enjoyed huge sales in their native country.
Scroll through to see which brands made it into this year’s top 10…
From Millennials to legislation by way of sustainability and off-piste wines, this top 10 set the scene for 2014.
Most trends have foundations that only become apparent once any given trend has gone mainstream. Picking those that are most likely to affect the wine trade through 2014 and beyond is always going to be fraught with maybes and passed over developments that subsequently become givens.
Click here to see if our predictions proved true…
Along similar lines, this top 10 sought to predict the food and drink trends for 2014. Fusion food and savoury cocktails were front runners back in January, but were our predictions proven right?
Usually it’s fine wines and Champagnes which hit the headlines for their high cost, but as this list proved beer can also pack a pricey-punch.
From beer produced according to an ancient recipe uncovered in an Egyptian Queen’s tomb, to one produced with Antarctic ice, there are a wealth of beers that have collectors racing for their wallets.
Scroll through to see some of the world’s most expensive bottles of beer…
In a list dominated by Australian and Californian wineries, one South American brand stood out as the world’s most powerful of 2014.
This top 10 based on the Drinks Business Power Brands Report, saw the world’s most influential wine and spirits brands pitted against each other to determine the world’s most powerful of 2014.
Click here to find out the top 10 most powerful wine brands of 2014.
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This top 10 exploring the role of female bartenders proved tremendously popular invoking both admiration and, at times, heated debate. While it may look glamourous on the surface, getting to the top of your game as a bartender requires hard graft, working antisocial hours and serious upper body strength. Like the wine world, the role of the bartender was traditionally a male domain, but over the last few decades, a legion of female bartenders have been rising up through the ranks and blazing a trail across the international cocktail scene. And while it remains a male-dominated industry, increasingly more women are taking up shaking as a full-time job, rather than a means of paying their way through university.
Check out our top 10 female bartenders here..
Published back in January, this round up captured what was a busy, exciting, and at times tumultuous twelve months of restaurant openings and closings for Hong Kong in 2013.
As is the norm, departing restaurants are rarely mourned for long as space is primped and preened for new arrivals. From buzzing dining bars to fine-dining Cantonese, the city saw a wide range of restaurant openings in 2013.
It was a tough job whittling it down to only ten, but here are some of our favourites.
Champagne has long been synonymous with quality and opulence having built up a reputation for luxury appeal. English and other sparkling wines may be challenging the Champagne market, but Champagne still holds an undeniable allure attracting the rich and famous and ardent collectors alike.
Here we took a look at the 10 most expensive Champagnes based on the average tax-free price for a single 75cl bottle according to wine search engine WineSearcher.com.
Scroll through to see the world’s top 10 most expensive Champagnes…
This top 10 Irish whiskeys achieved the the highest number of page views of any 2014 top 10 feature.
Despite there now being just a handful of operational distilleries producing Irish whiskey, the category features a range of diverse products from blends to Irish single pot stills and single malts. They are typically triple distilled and are known for their less smoky than Scotch flavour.
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