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Thomas Rivers Brown
"One thing I realized about wine is that you can never know everything there is to know. That appealed to my intellectual curiosity."—Thomas Rivers Brown
Cover Stories
The Midas Touch of Thomas Rivers Brown
Selected Recent Releases
Tasting Reports
Shifting Ground
Features
Accidental Empire
Breaking New Ground
The 2018 Grand Tastings
The Rebirth of Quinta do Noval
New Energy in Porto
Striking Whites
Grapevine
Bark-Wrapped Treats: Rare & Delicious
A Big Little Difference
Experts Duel Over Safety of Drinking
Sommeliers Share Their Secrets
Spanish Stars, French Favorites, Picks from Austria
What’s New in the Big Apple?
Departments
Cult Classic
We'll Always Have Paris
Feedback
California and Cabernet
Cauliflower Tagine with a Sicilian Red
Loire: A free chart offers an alphabetical list of all Loire wines reviewed for the tasting report in this issue.
Skin-Contact Whites: A free chart offers an alphabetical list of all Skin-Contact white wines reviewed for the tasting report in this issue.
Web Exclusive Content
NEW YORK WINE EXPERIENCE Join us Oct. 18–20 for this year's great lineup of tastings and seminars. Our full coverage of the event will bring the world's best winemakers and chefs to you with photos, articles and videos.
GLOSSARY OF WINE TERMS Unfamiliar with a word on a label or in a tasting note? Check our glossary.
WINE CHALLENGE From the basics of tasting to trivia about your favorite grapes, regions and styles, test your knowledge of all things wine by taking our quizzes. Every two weeks, we post a new set of questions.
WINE SPECTATOR VIDEO Watch all our wine tips, winemaker interviews and tastings on your desktop, laptop, tablet or phone.
- 2018 Video Contest Winner Revealed: The votes are in. After another year of strong entries, our Video Contest finalists and winner have been announced. Watch them, and learn more about the people who brought these stories to life.
- Green Harvesting: In the middle of the growing season, workers in Napa Valley's Eisele Vineyard remove clusters of Cabernet grapes from the weakest shoots on each vine. Winemaker Hélène Mingot explains this fine-tuning process.
- A Perfect Match: Roasted Cauliflower and Nero d'Avola: Find out more about this intriguing pairing—and get the recipe from chef Perry Hendrix of Avec in Chicago.
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