>> After just 22 drinks over 2 nights, Sean Evans of the NY Daily News claims organic booze = less intense hangovers. My more sustained — if less controlled — experiments lead me to believe Sean simply experienced an optimistic placebo effect re: the organic booze.

>> Wine Spectator magazine gave an award of excellence to a nonexistent restaurant called Osteria L’Intrepido. “The restaurant is a Web-based fiction devised by wine critic and author Robin Goldstein, who said he wanted to expose the lack of any foundation for many food and wine awards.”

>> “Girl drinks” = gender-neutral concoctions, according to Sarah Hepola of Salon who gives you 7 fruity cocktail recipes to try. The Jalapeña sounds interesting!

>> French wine appellations aren’t working as a quality-control mechanism, says Mike Steinberger in Slate. “The dismal quality of so much of the output in Beaujolais goes a long way to explaining why the region is mired in a slump that, by some estimates, is likely to put 30 percent to 50 percent of its winemakers out of business.”

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