Unfiltered Move Over, Cabernet: Napa Winery Tries Out New, Disease-Resistant Grapes Rutherford’s Whitehall Lane planted Camminare Noir and Paseante Noir to deal with the threat of Pierce’s disease. But how’s the wine? Aaron Romano Nov 3, 2020
Unfiltered Jack Daniel’s v. Bad Spaniels: Trademark Battle Between Dog Toy Maker and Entire Bev Industry May Head to Supreme Court The Tennessee whiskey has been locked in a yearslong legal dispute with a company that makes parody pet toys and that has managed to draw the ire of the world's leading wine, beer and spirits players in the process Collin Dreizen Oct 30, 2020
Unfiltered Elite Seattle Restaurant Canlis Transforms into 'Community College,' Offers Wine-and-Doritos Education With its latest reinvention and an assist from Bill Gates, the Wine Spectator Grand Award winner is rethinking fine dining for these stay-at-home times Julie Harans Oct 28, 2020
Unfiltered Sarah Michelle Gellar, Franzia Costumes, Haunted Wineries Ring in Hallowine Season The Vampire Slayer's Apothic adventure, ghostly winery tours, wine flights of fright, bedeviled beers, "scream cheese" and a different kind of adult costume will thrill and chill this Halloween Collin Dreizen Shawn Zylberberg Oct 22, 2020
Unfiltered Punctured Tanks to Pilfered Grapes, Global Wine Crimes and Blunders Run Rampant A Frenchman tries a self-checkout scam with a classified-growth Bordeaux. A famed wine merchant falls prey to an elaborate heist. A wine distributor defrauds investors with a Shark Tank product. And on, and on Shawn Zylberberg Oct 21, 2020
Unfiltered What Do You Drink When You're the President? New Wine Book Tells All From "Madeira Man" George Washington to JFK's obsession with James Bond–approved Champagne, Wine and the White House reveals 1600 Pennsylvania pours of lore, told by an author who was there Shawn Zylberberg Oct 16, 2020
Unfiltered Wineries and Chefs Gear Up Charity Efforts for California Wildfire Relief Some provided on-the-ground aid to deliver meals amid the blazes, while others are coming up with creative fundraisers for victims with longer-term needs Ben O'Donnell Collin Dreizen Shawn Zylberberg Oct 15, 2020
Unfiltered Exclusive New Cabernets Pave the Way for 47-Mile Napa Vine Trail The just-announced charity wine initiative will give Napa wine lovers a chance to invest in the popular biking and hiking path MaryAnn Worobiec Oct 13, 2020
Unfiltered War-Torn Wine, 'Worst' Champagne Harvest: Two Gripping New Wine Documentaries Debut Wine and War and Wine Crush (Vas-y Coupe!), out this week, feature a harrowing journey into Lebanon's winemaking amid civil war, and the travails of a cult Champagne grower Shawn Zylberberg Oct 8, 2020
Unfiltered Squirrel Beer, Fish Whiskey, Poop Wine: 'Disgusting Food Museum' Opens Disgusting Drinks Exhibition The curator of the now-infamous museum in Sweden told us what it was like to taste through the new collection of concoctions Suzanne Mustacich Oct 6, 2020
Unfiltered NBA's Moe Harkless Teams with The Prisoner Wine The New York Knicks shooting guard is promoting racial justice in a debut wine partnership with Napa's The Prisoner Wine Company Shawn Zylberberg Oct 1, 2020
Unfiltered 2,600-Year-Old Wine Press Discovered in Lebanon, but What Were They Drinking? A very large, very old wine facility reveals some critical clues about the winemaking prowess of the ancient Phoenicians Suzanne Mustacich Sep 30, 2020
Unfiltered Sex and Garlic: New Weapons Against the Most Notorious Vineyard Diseases? A Champagne vine expert and a Bordeaux lab have developed potential keys to winning winemakers' eternal war with powdery and downy mildews Collin Dreizen Sep 25, 2020
Unfiltered Kendall-Jackson and United Way Launch Fund for Grocery Workers Jackson Family Wines chairman and proprietor Barbara Banke gave us details on the brand-new $2 million initiative to help frontline workers Collin Dreizen Sep 24, 2020
Unfiltered Black Eyed Peas, NFL Hall of Famers and More Boost Wine Charity Efforts Barefoot Wines, Jackson Family Wines and others are making pushes to support kids' charities, COVID-impacted workers and wildfires victims Shawn Zylberberg Collin Dreizen Ben O'Donnell Sep 23, 2020