Ntsiki Biyela Launches Aslina Wines

The first South African black, female winemaker's latest palate-pleasing wonders

Remarkable stories seem to follow Ntsiki Biyela, South Africa’s first black woman winemaker. Perhaps that’s because she’s earned them—through hard work, dedication, a preternatural understanding of wines and an impressive four-wine release from her new brand Aslina. The dawn of her winemaking future hinged upon a scholarship from Stellenbosch University to study oenology. The program—which she entered in 1999, five years after the end of …

Oscar Mayer’s Healthier Hot Dog-Delivering WienerDrone

The newest member of Oscar Mayer’s WienerFleet, the WienerDrone will be making a hot dog delivery in Weiner, Arkansas for the Fourth of July. Joining the WienerMobile, WienerRover, WienerMini and a new WienerCycle, all vehicles in the fleet will be distributing a healthier variety of the product. The brand has removed all nitrates from its line of classic hot dogs. There will be no price …

Six Expectation-Defying Summer Cocktails

Out of the ordinary tequila, whisky and rum drinks that impress the palate

Cocktails, much like characters, extend from archetypes. It’s variations on the tried and true (and familiar) that primarily populate even the most innovative mixed drinks menus. Only once in a blue moon does a cocktail defy this logic and extend from a place unknown. And yet, any consumer that isn’t your average creature of habit is in search of the next, new flavor profile when …