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Tomintoul Tuesday!

Today, we bring you a special treat! Tomintoul's 16 Year Aged Single Malt all the way from Speyside. This whisky is aged in American oak. Unlike French or Spanish oak, American oak will lend the juice a lighter, golden color.

Shlomo dubs the whisky's malty flavor "The Honey Smack Syndrome." Think of it like drinking cereal.

The best cereal ever, that is.

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Wine101-Opening A Bottle of Sparkling Wine

Champagne makes everyone feel classy. So we decided to harken back to the jazz age in this snazzy Wine101 video. Here, Jay shows us how to properly open a bottle of wine.

The trick? Twist the bottle, not the cork. Unless you want a sparkling wine explosion (which you might). Have any sparkling wine stories gone hilariously wrong? We'd love to hear about them in the comments.

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Wine 101-Open A Bottle Of Wine

You have to start somewhere, right? Here, Jay Buchsbaum shows you how to open a bottle of wine, complete with a corkscrew suggestion.

Jay prefers a waiter's corkscrew, rather than a butterfly corkscrew. Remember to put the opener in the center of the cork.