Close to 1,000 avid wine lovers swirled, sniffed and tasted wines from among the 234 wineries pouring at Wine Spectator’s first stop of the 2025 Grand Tour, held in Chicago at the Sheraton Grand ...

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 ...

“Viva Las Vegas”? Here at Wine Spectator we think that the saying should be: “Vino Las Vegas.” Looking beyond the lure of the casinos and the endless entertainment, Las Vegas is also one of the top ...

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 ...

Wine Spectator senior editor James Molesworth is in Bordeaux, tasting the 2024 wines from barrel at some of the region's top estates and sharing his tasting notes. His latest visits are to châteaus ...

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Decades of research have linked moderate wine consumption to cardiovascular health benefits. Many of those studies have focused on the impact of red wine, which is rich in antioxidant organic ...

When life filled the Roman city of Pompeii, wine played an important role. There were wine bars and restaurants, and vineyards as well. Now grapegrowing and winemaking will return to the city in the ...

That’s a tough one. There’s a chance that’s simply the glassware the hotel prefers to use for wine. Some restaurants and bars choose to serve wine in what look like juice, water or cocktail glasses, ...

It remains widely grown there today, but the variety became so popular in the 1970s that for a time it became nearly synonymous with "white wine" in the U.S. Today, almost every wine-producing region ...

Americans may associate the grape with white Zinfandel, an off-dry blush wine popular in the 1980s and '90s, but it has since come into its own as a serious red wine.

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 ...