The Top 100
Cover Story
The Top 100 - Our Annual Roundup of the Year's Most Exciting Wines
The Top 100: Wine of the Year
The Top 100: Profiles of Wines Nos. 2 to 100
The Top 100: The 2008 Top 100 by Region and Variety
The Top 100: Highest-Scoring Releases of 2008
The Top 100: Great Values of 2008
The Top 100: Wines of the Year 1988 to 2007
The Top 100: 10 Years of Top 10s
The Top 100: Top 100 at a Glance
Features
Brut Strength - While quality and prices are as high as ever, Champagne still delivers values
The Gray Fox - With subtlety and skill, Joseph Henriot is making his mark in Champagne and Burgundy
The 2008 Wine Experience - Winemakers, chefs and fans gather in New York to celebrate outstanding wines despite a troubled economy
Departments
This Issue/Marvin R. Shanken
The Buying Guide
The Buying Guide for this issue is available here.
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IMPROVED WINE SEARCH: We've made it even easier to search the more than 203,000 wines in our online wine ratings database. Now you can search the tasting-note text to find wines with the characteristics you most enjoy.
NEW VALUE WINE LISTS: Our exclusive lists of the world's top wine values are perfect for holiday party planning and great gift ideas.
CELLAR MANAGEMENT TOOLS: Organize the bottles in your collection in a personal database. Track the value of your cellar. Print shelf tags. Make a shopping list of new, highly rated wines. You can do all these things online in one convenient location, using our Personal Wine List and My Cellar companion tools.
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TOP 100 OF 2008: What makes a wine a member of this exclusive club? Find out as Wine Spectator's senior editors discuss this year's Top 10 wines in a video series. Plus, get a handy printable list of the full Top 100.
HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING: If you're hosting friends or family, we'll help you pull off a great party with crowd-pleasing recipes and wines that won't bust your budget. Plus, get great gift ideas.
HOLIDAY SPARKLERS: Take a video tour of Schramsberg with Hugh Davies, who carries on his parents' vision of making America's top sparkling wine.
2008 CALIFORNIA WINE EXPERIENCE: The highlights of this year's most popular seminars were captured in three new videos:
- Top 10 of 2007: Meet the winemakers and learn about each of these amazing wines, from Krug to Clos des Papes.
- Celebrity Chefs' Wine Pairings: Find out what Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali cooked up this year. Also, see which wine matches worked out the best—the chefs' or executive editor Thomas Matthews'.
- Bordeaux 2005 Tasting: Watch senior editor James Suckling present some of his favorite wines from this exceptional vintage.
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