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Walk through a wine store, and most of the value-priced wines, the first bottles new consumers look to, are old brands marketed toward a previous generation.

Mixed Case: Opinion and Advice

It’s Time for Wine to Wake Up

Where are affordable wines geared toward younger consumers? Most wineries aren't making them

Mitch Frank

Feb 4, 2022

A winning bidder celebrates nabbing one of the top lots at the Naples Winter Wine Festival charity auction.

Naples Winter Wine Festival Raises $23 Million for Children's Charities

With trips to Tuscany, Napa and Argentina paired with one-of-a-kind wines, the nation's top charity wine auction hit a new high mark

Shawn Zylberberg

Feb 3, 2022

More than half of carbon emissions from producing a bottle of wine come from making and transporting the glass bottles.

Rethinking Hefty Bottles

In the past 40 years, the average wine bottle has doubled in weight, but that's not better for the wine inside

Mitch Frank

From the Feb 28, 2022, issue

Exercise and moderate drinking can be healthy, but are we using it to justify excess booze consumption?

Do Fitness Lovers Drink More? New Study Says Yes

Researchers found a link between people with high fitness levels and moderate to heavy drinking habits

Shawn Zylberberg

Jan 31, 2022

Chef de cuisine CJ Kahley of Geordie's in Phoenix has experience at restaurants by culinary leaders Michael Mina and Thomas Keller.

Phoenix’s Wrigley Mansion Welcomes New Culinary Leader

The Restaurant Award winner has a new chef de cuisine and an expanded wine list. Plus, New York’s Sant Ambroeus Hospitality Group adds an outpost with a focus on classic Italian wines, and the Danny Meyer–backed Intersect by Lexus closes

Jan 27, 2022

Prevention in a glass? A new study found red wine drinkers had a lower risk of COVID infection, while beer drinkers had a higher risk.

New Study Suggests Red Wine Reduces COVID Infection Rates

U.K. residents who drank 1 to 2 glasses of red wine per day had a lower chance of infection

Mitch Frank

Jan 25, 2022

Workers secure vines to trellises in Santa Barbara. Vineyard labor is changing as older workers retire and more women join the labor force; wineries must innovate to keep staff.

Who Will Pick America's Wine Grapes?

Crippling worker shortages and rising costs are forcing vintners to reimagine what labor looks like in U.S. vineyards

Kristen Bieler

Jan 20, 2022

Both charming and savvy, Anthony Barton elevated Léoville Barton into a "super second" with reasonable prices.

Anthony Barton, Legendary Bordeaux Winery Owner, Dies at 91

A dashing figure for decades in the wine trade, he raised châteaus Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton to iconic status

Suzanne Mustacich

Jan 19, 2022

We've all been there. Unfortunately, a scientifically verified cure is still on the horizon.

Is a Cure for Hangovers Finally Here? More Evidence Needed

A team of researchers graded studies of remedies that could make you feel less wooly after a night of drinking, and found the research insufficient

Shawn Zylberberg

Jan 18, 2022

Clockwise from top left: Wine Spectator editors James Molesworth, MaryAnn Worobiec, Alison Napjus, Kristen Bieler and Aaron Romano

Wine Spectator Looks to the Future

Expanded duties for veteran editors and welcome to a new senior editor

Jeffery Lindenmuth

From the Feb 28, 2022, issue

Edge Hill was a Napa winery in the 19th century, then a private home before Leslie Rudd revitalized it and planted six acres.

Exclusive: Joel Gott Wines Buys Napa's Historic Edge Hill Winery

Gott plans to make a small-production red blend from the St. Helena property revitalized by the late Leslie Rudd

MaryAnn Worobiec

Jan 14, 2022

Gov. Kathy Hochul called for making to-go drinks legal permanently in her State of the State Address, but it needs to pass the legislature.

Wine To Go Could Come Back in New York

Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed permanently legalizing takeout drinks. Restaurants see needed revenue; liquor stores see competition

Julie Harans

Jan 13, 2022

The wine team at Mastro's Steakhouse and Stella's Wine Bar in Houston's Post Oak Hotel. Left to right: Sommeliers Jay On, Julie Dalton, Jeffery Young and Elena Prevatt and Keith Goldston.

Houston Welcomes a Casual Wine Bar with a Grand Award–Winning List

Stella’s shares a 35,000-bottle cellar with Mastro’s Steakhouse in the Post Oak Hotel. Plus, New York gets another omakase from the Sushi Noz team, and Restaurant Week returns

Jan 13, 2022

Over a 33-year career at Wine Spectator, Kim Marcus had many roles, including news reporter, managing editor, taster and Napa bureau chief.

Wine Spectator's Kim Marcus, 1959–2022

Longtime senior editor helped shape the magazine's global coverage of wine for more than three decades

Jan 12, 2022

Hubert de Boüard and Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal in the cellars of Angélus. Questions over his role in the 2012 rankings helped her decide to leave the classification.

Château Angélus Exits St.-Emilion Classification. Will Controversy Go with It?

Less than a decade after the Bordeaux winery was promoted to the Right Bank appellation’s top level, its owners decide the endless court cases over rankings aren’t worth the trouble

Suzanne Mustacich

Jan 11, 2022

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