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Recovering (left) and reconstructing (right) the Newport Ship. Green and brown represent components that were partially or fully recovered IRL.

Resurrecting a Medieval Wine Ship that Carried 200,000 Bottles' Worth of Cargo

The 100-foot behemoth, lost for half a millennium, will soon be upright again—and gives a fascinating glimpse at the European wine wars of Henry VI's day

Feb 14, 2020

The dedicated detectives who investigate these vinous calamities are members of an elite squad ... Left: the busted bottle. Right: the through-the-cork rescue operation.

Record-Breaking 10-Foot-Tall Bottle Erupts in Enormous Red-Wine Flood

At a Chinese restaurant in Austria, it took six firefighters to clean up the spill. Could they rescue the remainder of the zaftig Zweigelt?

Feb 12, 2020

Laura Dern awards herself some Piper Champagne while getting her Oscar engraved.

Oscars Wine Wins: 8,500 Champagne Glasses, Plus Wolfgang Puck Plates Plants

We dish on the pours and snacks of the Academy Awards. Plus: Who made a beeline for the Champagne?

Feb 10, 2020

Woman with wine and book

Sommelier Roundtable: What Are You Reading?

From historical sagas to atlases to frank dissections of wine culture's problems, here's what books 13 somms have their noses in

Feb 7, 2020

People

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Sommelier Roundtable: What Are You Reading?

From historical sagas to atlases to frank dissections of wine culture's problems, here's what books 13 somms have their noses in

Feb 7, 2020

Huey Lewis has an unexpected family connection to pioneering wine importer.

Huey Lewis and the Crus

Mar 31, 2020

Mike Etzel

The Birth and Building of Beaux Frères

Mar 31, 2020

Roberto Anselmi built a highly technical winery, which produces 50,000 cases per year; the wines from vineyards in Soave bear a Veneto IGT designation to allow him flexibility in his winemaking and marketing approaches.

Roberto Anselmi: Still Crazy After All These Years

Feb 5, 2020

Natural wine still makes some wary, but somms point to winemakers from Berkeley, Calif., to Spain's Ribeira Sacra as leaders in quality.

Sommelier Roundtable: Where Are You at on Natural Wine?

Jan 24, 2020

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Recovering (left) and reconstructing (right) the Newport Ship. Green and brown represent components that were partially or fully recovered IRL.

Recovering (left) and reconstructing (right) the Newport Ship. Green and brown represent components that were partially or fully recovered IRL.

Resurrecting a Medieval Wine Ship that Carried 200,000 Bottles' Worth of Cargo

The 100-foot behemoth, lost for half a millennium, will soon be upright again—and gives a fascinating glimpse at the European wine wars of Henry VI's day

Feb 14, 2020

The dedicated detectives who investigate these vinous calamities are members of an elite squad ... Left: the busted bottle. Right: the through-the-cork rescue operation.

The dedicated detectives who investigate these vinous calamities are members of an elite squad ... Left: the busted bottle. Right: the through-the-cork rescue operation.

Record-Breaking 10-Foot-Tall Bottle Erupts in Enormous Red-Wine Flood

At a Chinese restaurant in Austria, it took six firefighters to clean up the spill. Could they rescue the remainder of the zaftig Zweigelt?

Feb 12, 2020

Food things come in small packages: The first house completed by Project Tiny Home has a full kitchen, plus a surprise housewarming gift.

Food things come in small packages: The first house completed by Project Tiny Home has a full kitchen, plus a surprise housewarming gift.

Tiny House Nation Comes to Wine Country

Sutter Home: Project Tiny Home pairs a famed winery and beloved reality show to fight the housing crisis one small abode at a time

Feb 11, 2020

Extra, Extra

Extra, Extra

Recovering (left) and reconstructing (right) the Newport Ship. Green and brown represent components that were partially or fully recovered IRL.

Recovering (left) and reconstructing (right) the Newport Ship. Green and brown represent components that were partially or fully recovered IRL.

Resurrecting a Medieval Wine Ship that Carried 200,000 Bottles' Worth of Cargo

The 100-foot behemoth, lost for half a millennium, will soon be upright again—and gives a fascinating glimpse at the European wine wars of Henry VI's day

The dedicated detectives who investigate these vinous calamities are members of an elite squad ... Left: the busted bottle. Right: the through-the-cork rescue operation.

Record-Breaking 10-Foot-Tall Bottle Erupts in Enormous Red-Wine Flood

The wine company is hoping to give Parisian wine a platform.

Inside the Newest Urban Winery: The Eiffel Tower

Grass, glass or Alsace—no one rides for free. Pictured: The weed, wine and stemware haul, along with cannabis plant cuttings.

Drug-Dealer Wine-Stealers Busted for Alleged Theft of Royal Wine

A case of Resting Beethoven Face on a monument at the Tiergarten at Berlin

Lead in His Red: Wine Killed Beethoven, Suggests Provocative New Research

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Sports

Sports

With Cabernets and cigars, Charles Woodson (left) gets in the zone with chefs Charlie Palmer (center) and Michael Voltaggio at the Culinary Kickoff.

With Cabernets and cigars, Charles Woodson (left) gets in the zone with chefs Charlie Palmer (center) and Michael Voltaggio at the Culinary Kickoff.

Charlie Palmer, Charles Woodson, Guy Fieri and Shaq Are the MVPs of Super Bowl Wine Tailgating

This year's big-game parties featured Fieri in a food truck, wine and "GOAT Fuel," and Yellow Tail switching 'roos for puppies

Drew Bledsoe (right) and winemaker Josh McDaniels have made Doubleback a consistent contender; all three 2016 releases from that label earned outstanding scores of 90-plus points.

Drew Bledsoe's Long Game in Washington and Oregon

Charles Woodson launched his new Intercept line of wines in August 2019 to much fanfare at Michigan Stadium, where he played in college.

Charles Woodson Covers California

NFL teams don't get much farther away from Pacific Northwest wine country than the Miami Dolphins, but Dan Marino (left) kept his cellar stocked with Washington favorites, and Damon Huard came to appreciate them.

Dan Marino and Damon Huard, Passing Time and Wine

It's been a breakthrough season for NFL teams and players getting into the wine game.

Wine Scores a Touchdown

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TV, Film & Theater

TV, Film & Theater

Food things come in small packages: The first house completed by Project Tiny Home has a full kitchen, plus a surprise housewarming gift.

Food things come in small packages: The first house completed by Project Tiny Home has a full kitchen, plus a surprise housewarming gift.

Tiny House Nation Comes to Wine Country

Sutter Home: Project Tiny Home pairs a famed winery and beloved reality show to fight the housing crisis one small abode at a time

Laura Dern awards herself some Piper Champagne while getting her Oscar engraved.

Oscars Wine Wins: 8,500 Champagne Piper Glasses, Gold Coppola Bottles and Wolfgang Puck Plates Plants

Thomas Haden Church and Paul Giamatti are not expected to reprise their roles ... as far as we know. The infamous spit-bucket scene remains to be seen.

'Sideways' Comes to Off-Broadway, Makes Peace with Merlot?

Set phasers to sun: Data (Brent Spiner, left) and Picard (Patrick Stewart) catch some shade during filming at Sunstone Winery last spring.

Make It So: How a Not-So-French Vineyard Got Cast as Star Trek's 'Château Picard'

Twice upon a time in Champagne: Brad Pitt (left) is planning a bubbly double-feature this year, making it with Marc Perrin and celebrating with it at the Oscars.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Château Miraval to Premiere Rosé Champagne

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What?!

What?!

The dedicated detectives who investigate these vinous calamities are members of an elite squad ... Left: the busted bottle. Right: the through-the-cork rescue operation.

The dedicated detectives who investigate these vinous calamities are members of an elite squad ... Left: the busted bottle. Right: the through-the-cork rescue operation.

Record-Breaking 10-Foot-Tall Bottle Erupts in Enormous Red-Wine Flood

At a Chinese restaurant in Austria, it took six firefighters to clean up the spill. Could they rescue the remainder of the zaftig Zweigelt?

Through triumph and adversity, Vernon Kruger just rolls with it.

79 Days in a Wine Barrel, 80 Feet Above Ground, Man Breaks Very Specific World Record

A case of Resting Beethoven Face on a monument at the Tiergarten at Berlin

Lead in His Red: Wine Killed Beethoven, Suggests Provocative New Research

The Upper Lodge in Sussex, England (left), and the fruit for its single-vine cuvée

Is this the World's Smallest Vineyard?

The Tetratruck will have the mobility and roadworthiness of a box of wine, as well as the appearance.

Unfiltered Predictions for 2020

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Music

Music

Huey Lewis has an unexpected family connection to pioneering wine importer.

Huey Lewis has an unexpected family connection to pioneering wine importer.

Huey Lewis and the Crus

From Burgundy to Napa, the venerated rocker has experienced the power of wine all his life

A case of Resting Beethoven Face on a monument at the Tiergarten at Berlin

Lead in His Red: Wine Killed Beethoven, Suggests Provocative New Research

That new oak smell: Quinta da Pacheca is open for stavecations. And in 2019, you readers wanted nothing more than to be in there.

Best of Unfiltered 2019

In the movie, cat Bustopher Jones (James Corden, center) acquires a human-sized bottle and requires the assistance of other cats to hoist it up. If you were wondering.

The Cats in the 'Cats' Movie Drink Champagne, Specifically Pipurr-Heidsieck

Stemwares & Citroëns: Post Malone (right) samples France with Zane Lowe.

Post Malone, Sarah Jessica Parker Dropping New Wines

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Design

Design

Eric and Kelli Schaefer’s cellar.

Eric and Kelli Schaefer’s cellar.

Private Cellars

Best-Laid Plans

St. Louis collectors Eric and Kelli Schaefer build a cellar for the ages

From left: attorneys Joel Deutsch, Stan Gibson and Bruce Jeffer

Private Cellars

Case Law

Tom Colicchio and Lori Silverbush bought their 19th-century brownstone in 2016 and quickly undertook an ambitious, historically faithful restoration.

A Home Grows in Brooklyn

Image for an article: Tony Simmons' 3,200-bottle collection showcases Napa gems and prestige Bordeaux.

Private Cellars

In the Cellar of Tabasco's 'Sauce Boss'

Image for an article: Matteo and Valentina Lunelli's airy duplex penthouse balances modern design with views of mountains, rooftops and Trento's historic Torre Civica belltower.

Wine & Design: Modern Living in a Medieval Villa

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Wine imports from France, Spain and Germany will continue to shrink after the U.S. Trade Representative opted to keep tariffs in place.

Wine imports from France, Spain and Germany will continue to shrink after the U.S. Trade Representative opted to keep tariffs in place.

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Recovering (left) and reconstructing (right) the Newport Ship. Green and brown represent components that were partially or fully recovered IRL.

Recovering (left) and reconstructing (right) the Newport Ship. Green and brown represent components that were partially or fully recovered IRL.

Resurrecting a Medieval Wine Ship that Carried 200,000 Bottles' Worth of Cargo

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Wine director Luis Morones oversees the wine programs for the Presidente InterContinental Mexico City hotel

Wine director Luis Morones oversees the wine programs for the Presidente InterContinental Mexico City hotel

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