“If you’re a wine connoisseur or enjoy a good Cabernet, you likely don’t need another reason to put “wine tasting” on a list of activities you like. But science has one for you: it can stimulate the brain more than a lot of other activities (from listening to a...
If light refreshments are planned for a two-hour function, you’ll need about a half-bottle for every person, understanding that very few will consume as much as a half-bottle. Many will try two or three different wines until they find one they like. Whites and rosés...
Alex Burch, wine director of Bastion in Nashville, cautioned, “Picking a wine by its label is slightly better than judging a book by its cover.” Still, there are a lot of things going on in one of those labels, more than I even realized, with words like “producer” and...
“Our tastes in wine have changed over the past decade. That should be no surprise, as wine surpassed beer as our favorite tipple, rosé became a cliche (brosé, frozé, “rosé all day”), and the choices available to us have expanded, including wines from the Balkans,...
Not ten months after firestorms ravaged Northern California wine country, the flames have returned to the region. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, reports that the County Fire started at around 2:00 p.m. on June 30, and as of the...
“Some wine descriptions make inherent sense, like saying that a rosé has grapefruit notes or that a big California red had jammy qualities. Others are a little more abstract, like when you ask for a bright, clean white at your favorite wine store and the person...
Like gravity, microwaves, and Westworld, red wine is something that most people enjoy, even if they don't really understand it. It's easy to drink red wine (obviously), but -- even if you are embarrassed to admit it -- there's a contingency of wine drinkers who...
If you’ve been paying any attention to social media for the past five years, or have simply dined out, you know that the rosé craze is real. From influencers who have devoted their entire digital careers to the wine, to $207 million in annual sales, you could be...
“The bottom line? As long as people are influenced by the quality ratings pronounced by others, as taste-test evidence suggests, the wine industry is likely to remain dominated by connoisseurs rather than computers.” READ MORE...
October 2017 saw devastating wildfires hit parts of Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties. Several months later, Wine Spectator visited a few of the hardest-hit wineries, including Signorello, Mayacamas and Paradise Ridge, to check on their recovery. READ MORE...