Buying Guides

Here are ten of the best bottles of bubbly on the market.

We conducted a blind tasting of 16 of the best available boxed wine (8 white, 8 red). A few tasted like our worst box wine memories of yore: fermented juice boxes gone bad.

Eat healthy and save some dough without looking like you’re in third grade.

The Jaguar F-Type is soon to be a classic and the Mazda MX-5 has enjoyed 25 years as a road-going icon. Both offer an unmatched driving experience at each end of the price spectrum.

GP and Caskers.com taste whisky from the five best independent distilleries in Scotland.

Hot chocolate has an artisan niche that’s on par with the craft beer scene.

You’ve spent the last 11 months making all the right choices. You’ve put the needs of others before your own.

Our guide to the 16 best home bar- and spirits-related gifts under $50.

Our guide to 18 of the best books, albums, movies, games and tv shows to gift in 2014.

How much disposable income do you want to spend on disposable horsepower?

Stay home, avoid getting pepper-sprayed over a discounted 42-inch Panasonic, check out the best blacked-out gear on Black Friday.

Don’t be the guy who brings pumpkin spice vodka to a Friendsgiving gathering.

The rise of craft American whiskey now extends beyond the bourbon belt.

At some of the distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, there are bottles you can’t find anywhere else — rarities that can only be purchased on-site.

This is bomber, save-your-ass gear that’ll get you started with trad climbing, but a word of caution: it’s only as good as the climber using it.

If you’re into vintage — your dad’s aviators, reclaimed wood counters, old military watches — then it doesn’t get much more old school than apple brandy, a spirit distilled from the hard cider of fermented fresh apples and then aged in oak.

It’s easy to change and improve the way our homes smell with comforting scents — and we’re not talking about diffusers that plug into the outlet.

Few colors exude class and understated luxury quite like brown. Think of a good cup of coffee (or bourbon), rich hardwood or Steve McQueen’s Ferrari.

Aspiring podcasters and DIY rockstars in training, take note: you don’t need to go whole hog on a home studio to get your feet wet with home recording. All you need to get started is the right digital microphone.

In 2014 bike parlance, L’Eroica is the ultimate gravel grinder, a 38-204 kilometer ride along the strade bianche (“white roads”) of Tuscany, Italy, with ascents steep as 23 percent grade and sketchy, sandy downhills as a reward for the hard work. Unlike the Dirty Kanza, though, you won’t find riders toeing the line in Gaiole in Chianti with carbon bikes, electronic shifting and hydraulic disc brakes.