How to Submit Wines for Review
Wine Spectator reviews more than 16,000 wines each year. All new releases are reviewed in blind tastings in flights with their peers. (For more information, please refer to About Our Tastings.)
Our goal is to review wines that are important and available to our readers. In most cases, we review only wines that are distributed in major markets in the United States.
The task of managing these tastings occupies a staff of 8 tasting coordinators based in Wine Spectator offices in New York, Napa and Tuscany. Each office is responsible for specific wine regions.
While most tasting samples are supplied, Wine Spectator spends thousands of dollars each year purchasing wines for review. Unsolicited samples may not be tasted; wines received without the additional information we require will not be tasted.
If you produce or represent a wine you would like Wine Spectator to review, please contact the appropriate office for detailed information.
For more general inquiries, here are answers to frequently asked questions about Wine Spectator’s tasting process.
How do I know which office to contact?
Wines from California, Washington, Oregon, Australia and New Zealand are reviewed in our Napa office. You can contact Gus Weed (Washington, Oregon, Australia and New Zealand) at aweed@mshanken.com or (707) 299-3406 and MaryAnn Worobiec (California) at mworobiec@mshanken.com or (707) 299-3992.
Bordeaux, Italy and Port are reviewed on location in Europe. Contact Rosanne Quagliata at winespectator@virgilio.it.
All other wines, including wines from Burgundy, Spain, Champagne, Austria, German, Chile, Argentina, Languedoc, South Africa, Alsace, Loire, Rhône, Portugal, Greece and Beaujolais are reviewed in the New York office. You can reach the coordinators at nytasting@mshanken.com or (212) 684-4224.
If samples are sent to an office in error, they will not be reviewed there and we cannot forward these samples to the correct office. Prior to sending samples to any office you should contact a tasting department staff member from the correct office for more information. Do not send unsolicited samples.
