McBride Sisters Award $300,000 in Grants to Black Women–Owned Businesses

She Can Professional Development Fund offers hope for business owners affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

• MaryAnn Worobiec

Feb 2, 2021

Primum Familiae Vini Name Finalists for $120,000 Prize

The Family Is Sustainability award will be given to the family business that best embodies the PFV’s principles of environmental sustainability and social responsibility

• Suzanne Mustacich

Jan 27, 2021

A Year in Space: Bordeaux Wine Splashes Down

NASA's first space wine mission has successfully returned to Earth, where 12 bottles of Bordeaux and hundreds of Merlot and Cabernet vines will now be analyzed

• Shawn Zylberberg

Jan 25, 2021

Burgundy Burglars Nab $425,000 in Wine, Lob Bottles at Cops in Mario Kart–Style Getaway

A luxury hotel in France falls victim to thieves … two days in a row

• Shawn Zylberberg

Jan 20, 2021

World Central Kitchen Activates All-Night Operation After D.C. Capitol Attack

“I don’t know what else to do right now … so we just started cooking,” chef José Andrés’ wrote on Twitter as his organization fed hundreds of first responders

• Julie Harans

Jan 12, 2021

After 2,000 Years, Pompeii Wine Bar to ‘Reopen’ this Spring

Archaeologists have unearthed a wine and snack bar in the ash-buried Roman city of Pompeii

• Collin Dreizen

Jan 11, 2021

Unfiltered Predictions for 2021

Virtual-reality winery tours, vine vaccines, the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers abandon basketball for basket presses, and fast-food wine collabs

• Robert Taylor
• Collin Dreizen
• Shawn Zylberberg

Jan 7, 2021

Busted in Bordeaux: Crime Ring Suspected of Stealing $6 Million in Wine and Whisky

Plus, an illicit winery discovered in an Alabama sewage treatment facility, and thieves target cult Cabernet verticals in California

• Suzanne Mustacich
• Shawn Zylberberg

Dec 30, 2020

Best of Unfiltered 2020

From Beethoven’s poisoned wine to JFK’s Dom Pérignon obsession to Brad Pitt’s rosé Champagne to weaponized sex inhibitors, 2020 was wilder than you know

Dec 24, 2020

Cameron Diaz’s Avaline Adds Bubbles

Spain's Raventós i Blanc is making the organically grown and vegan-friendly wine brand's newest addition. Plus, Aldi's ChocoSecco makes a splash

• Gillian Sciaretta
• Collin Dreizen

Dec 22, 2020

Mouton-Rothschild Selects Chinese Artist Xu Bing for 2018 Label

The Bordeaux first-growth bottle will feature one of Xu’s signature “square word calligraphies”

• Suzanne Mustacich

Dec 18, 2020