Kate Dingwall

By day, Kate is a writer, editor and photographer covering the intersection between spirits, business, culture and travel. By night, she’s a sommelier who has worked at some of the best restaurants in North America.
Wine is her first love, academia is her second. She holds an undergraduate degree in renaissance-era Italian architecture, another one in fashion branding and a Masters in Brand Management with a focus on wine marketing. She continues to toil away at her Wine & Spirit Education Trust Diploma.
She writes about strong drinks and nice wines for Food & Wine, Vogue.com, Wine Enthusiast, Forbes.com, Eater, Elle, Worth, and The Toronto Star. Kate lives in Toronto with her rescue dog and cat.

All Articles From Kate Dingwall
Christina Veira

Christina Veira Is Rallying for a Better Hospitality Industry

The award-winning bartender is throwing down a red flag on some of the industry’s most glaring issues

The Gaja vineyard in Alta Langa

Wine Trends Come and Go, but Gaja’s Barbarescos Remain Legendary

The family’s next generation has decamped to Sicily and embraced the odd sides of Piedmont, all while referencing the winery’s rebel past

Not your ordinary bottle service at NYC's Nubeluz

Bottle Service Is (Mostly) Grown Up 

Today, it’s high-end, cocktail-minded and excessively less sticky than the bottle service of yore

The minibar at San Diego's Lafayette Hotel

We’re in the Golden Age of the Hotel Minibar

Think more sophistication, less desperation

Champagne Billecart-Salmon is The Spill's Winery of the Year

Skip the Big-Name Champagnes: This Historic Brand Is All You Need 

Billecart-Salmon is terroir-driven, sommelier-loved and available in your local bodega

Essencia wine from Royal Tokaji

Why Is Essencia the World’s Most Expensive Wine? 

And why is it served in a spoon?

The Drinking Culture of Spain

The Drinking Culture of Spain

Spaniards have a beverage for every time of day

English model and actress Twiggy, as Polly Browne, raises a champagne glass in the cockpit of an aeroplane in a scene from the fim version of Sandy Wilson's musical 'The Boy Friend', directed by Ken Russell, 1971.

The Hottest New Wine Bar Is 30,000 Feet in the Air

Airlines are finally making a major investment in their wine programs, including rare vintages and exclusive bottles

The interior of CKTL & Co, a Toronto bar where prices fluctuate based on demand

You Can Bet on Drinks at This Stock Market-Themed Bar

An early aughts trend returns. Invest in and imbibe Manhattans, Sidecars and Martinis at watering holes where prices fluctuate with demand.

a sunny vineyard

The Cult Napa Winery We Can’t Get Out of Our Head

In a quiet, forested pocket of the Napa Valley, Schramsberg makes Champagne-style wines that wowed us in 2023

Tom Cruise showing his tricks as a bartender in a scene from the film 'Cocktail', 1988.

The Best Booze Movies Ever

Where to stream these intoxicating films (and what to drink while watching)

Nomadica Orange Wine in a can and in a glass

Inside Nomadica’s Quest to Make Really Good Orange Wine

The California wine company has made a drink ideal for fall — and it's in a can

Anderson Paak on the turntables at dante's hifi in miami

How Your Favorite Bar Crafts a Playlist

Bartenders and sommeliers share their secrets for setting the vibes

If you're not drinking Piquepool, Pais or Rossese, you're missing out

10 Wildly Underrated Wine Grape Varieties, According to Sommeliers

Why aren’t you imbibing Cabernet Pfeffer, Rossese or Refosk?

Several glasses and bottles of Barbeito's wine from Madeira

These Fortified Wines From Madeira Pair With Everything

Excellent, underrated wines from the tiny, semi-tropical island

Ami Ami, part of a new wave of good boxed wine

We’re in the Golden Age of Boxed Wine (Seriously)

Thanks to a new wave of producers, boxed wine has gone from trivial to terrific