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How to Find the Best Champagne for You
The bigger producers of Champagne can make excellent wines, even at the entry level. Smaller grower-producers offer a different, often more distinctive expression of Champagne. Here are 10 big brands and 11 small growers well worth seeking out, and a glossary to help you navigate the selections.
These Champagnes have names you might recognize …
The 7 Best Wines to Pour at Your Holiday Party
Sitting around the table with friends and family is one of the joys of the holiday season, and since these are some of your favorite people in the world, why not splash out on some special bottles? We always like to greet our guests with bubbles, and since it’s the holidays, make sure it’s an incredible bottle of Champagne. Most appetizers are generally a little lighter tha...
The 7 Best Wines to Pour at Your Holiday Party
Sitting around the table with friends and family is one of the joys of the holiday season, and since these are some of your favorite people in the world, why not splash out on some special bottles? We always like to greet our guests with bubbles, and since it’s the holidays, make sure it’s an incredible bottle of Champagne. Most appetizers are generally a little lighter tha...
Our Wine Editors’ 10 Favorite Bottles of the Year
If tasting wine sounds like your idea of a dream job—to be honest it is—just remember that we also have to pay meticulous attention to what’s in our glass, sniffing, swirling, and spitting while taking painstaking notes. As we set up our tastings and accept invitations to events throughout the year, we know that we are starting out with the true cream of the crop, but eve...
The 13 Best Wines to Gift This Holiday Season
The holiday season is the perfect time of the year to reward your wine-loving friends, family members, and colleagues with a bottle chosen specially for them. We’ve taken personality types into consideration, thrown in a special birth year or anniversary bottling, and have come up with these seven special choices for holiday gifting. One of the best things about a well-chosen...
The Ever-Changing Napa Valley Tasting Experience
From its humble beginnings, with a handful of wineries in the late 1800s, Napa Valley has evolved into a sought-after tourist destination a century later. Its vine-lined estates, along with the canyons of Yosemite and Disneyland, are among California’s biggest attractions.
The 7 Best Wines to Pair with Your Thanksgiving Feast
Who doesn’t love Thanksgiving? You get to hang with your family, friends, and chosen family on a day that involves eating food, drinking wine, watching a game, and then eating some more. It’s a great time to get together, but Thanksgiving dinner can be a difficult meal to pair wines with due to the wide variety of foods and flavors served. This year, we’ll be drinking whi...
The Best Bottles to Gift This Holiday Season
There’s no better gift for a home bartender than a cool and underrated bottle to add to the collection. This year, with the help of some of our favorite drink connoisseurs, we rounded up the spirits and wines we’d be most delighted to receive.
Wines for Sharing and Celebrating Throughout the Holidays
November and December are exceptional months for enjoying fine wines, especially from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve. I tasted 160 wines for this column, and below are my top choices across a broad range of grapes, styles and prices. Each selection will add to the enjoyment of 2025 and beyond.
Wines for Sharing and Celebrating Throughout the Holidays
November and December are exceptional months for enjoying fine wines, especially from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve. I tasted 160 wines for this column, and below are my top choices across a broad range of grapes, styles and prices. Each selection will add to the enjoyment of 2025 and beyond.
