Kristen Bieler joined Wine Spectator as a senior editor in 2021. An Arizona native, Kristen graduated from Cornell University with a degree in history, and moved to New York City to pursue a career in ...

As the beverage director at Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winner Audrey ... Audrey is housed in a structure made from imported blackened (shou sugi ban) Japanese wood and styled to ...

Sauvignon Blanc is historically connected to two French winemaking regions: the Loire Valley and Bordeaux. It most likely originated in the former, which today still makes single-variety expressions ...

Louiedell, a Nyack native (she and Tony were high school sweethearts), said it had never crossed their minds to open a wine ...

For any given aroma, flavor or taste, there is a concentration below which we are no longer able to detect it. This point is called the sensory threshold, and where it occurs varies considerably from ...

Keith Newton joined Wine Spectator in 2005 and was promoted to assistant managing editor in 2018. A native New Yorker who lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter, Newton is also a poet who ...

Sauvignon Blanc is historically connected to two French winemaking regions: the Loire Valley and Bordeaux. It most likely originated in the former, which today still makes single-variety expressions ...

This popular red grape originated in Burgundy but has spread across the New World. Like its white Burgundian counterpart Chardonnay, Pinot Noir is early-budding, early-ripening and thin-skinned. The ...