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Chef Daniel Boulud's Carrot Vichy
Just in time for fall, Daniel Boulud welcomed us into the kitchen at Wine Spectator Grand Award Winner, Daniel, to share how he prepares a fall favorite: Carrot Vichy 🥕 And the perfect pairing? Erin Healy, Chef Sommelier at Daniel, says "Honestly....Sauternes! One of the best pairings one can treat themselves to is a perfectly roasted chicken with simply cooked carrots and a glass of Sauternes. Alsatian white is also a great pairing for a fainter heart."
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60 Seconds of Salvestrin
Emma and Hannah Salvestrin have joined their parents at the family's Salvestrin Winery, working with a parcel of historic Dr. Crane Vineyard that has been in the family for nearly 100 years. We chatted with them about wine, bocce, and all things Napa Valley. For more on Napa Cabernet, check out the 2023 Napa Cab report: https://www.winespectator.com/issues/california-cabernet-2026-11-15
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Wine Spectator's 50th Anniversary Cover
It's Wine Spectator's 50th birthday! Over five decades, Wine Spectator has explored the fascinating world of wine, educating our readers on the culture, history, personalities, and economics of this ever-evolving industry, while introducing wine lovers to the many thousands of bottles we taste every year. Thank YOU for the past 50 years and cheers to the next 50 🥂 The special 50th anniversary issue of Wine Spectator is on newsstands October 20th.
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90 Seconds with Chef Daniel Boulud
To celebrate the official opening of Daniel Boulud's newest restaurant Brasserie Boulud, we chatted with chef about food, wine, and all things garlic 🧄 Read all about the new restaurant opening: https://www.winespectator.com/articles/daniel-boulud-brasserie-new-york-city-restaurant-opening-wine
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OUR SENIOR EDITOR CORRECTS US ON HARD WINE WORDS
Wine words are hard. Our senior editors make it look easy. For everyone else, there’s our free (and newly improved) wine glossary 🍷 https://www.winespectator.com/glossary/index/word/A
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What is Orange Wine?
No, it's not made from oranges ... We're breaking down how orange wine is made in honor of National Orange Wine Day! What are your thoughts on orange wine? 👇️
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What a Professional Wine Tasting Actually Looks Like
"Do you just drink wine all day?" We hear it all the time, but the reality looks a lot more like this 😭 When you have to evaluate dozens of wines for quality, aroma, and flavor, you simply can't swallow it all. To keep our palates sharp (and stay standing), professional tasting requires serious discipline. Spitting and dumping are occupational necessities, even when it breaks our hearts. 💔🍷
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Every Wine Tasting Group Member and Their Red Flags
Every wine tasting group has them 🚩🚩🚩 Which one are you? 👇️
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Wine Spectator's No. 2 Wine of 2025
This wine combines a renowned winemaker, a special vineyard and an exceptional vintage. Mark Aubert makes Chardonnays that he describes as “hedonistic” for their full body and ripe fruit flavors, while they also show terroir-driven precision and finesse. The UV-SL vineyard, planted with the late vineyard manager Ulises Valdez Sr., is just six miles from the Pacific Ocean. Regarding the 2023 vintage, Aubert says, “the weather was conducive for flavor development. Chardonnay grapes climb up this crescendo and then when you get to the crescendo, you know you’ve got the flavor you want. It’s all about flavor for us.”
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Wine Spectator's No. 3 Wine of 2025
Dry Creek Valley is the epicenter of California Zinfandel, and few vineyards express that like Lytton Springs. It was first planted in 1901, and Ridge’s first bottling was in 1972. The soil in the flatlands is gravelly loam full of rocks, boasting the oldest vines, while the hill has more clay. The 2023 bottling is more than three-quarters Zinfandel, with Petite Sirah and Carignane contributing a zesty, spicy character to the blend. Lytton Springs winemaker Shauna Rosenblum, daughter of Zin legend Kent Rosenblum, aged the wine for 16 months in American oak barrels, 19 percent of which are new.
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On Wine & Coffee for National Coffee Day
To celebrate with National Coffee Day we spoke with wine pro turned coffee guru, Derek Bromley at Ohm Coffee in Downtown Napa. He broke down the similarities between two of our favorite beverages: ☕️ and 🍷
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Wine Spectator's No. 4 Wine of 2025
Williams Selyem is a beloved Pinot Noir label for American wine lovers. That’s thanks in large part to Jeff Mangahas, who has been head winemaker since 2014. Succeeding winemaker Bob Cabral and the brand’s original founders, he’s kept the house style intact—one that emphasizes vivid and ripe fruit balanced by underlying juiciness. For the Eastside Road Neighbors bottling, grapes are sourced from the Calegari, Foss and Lewis MacGregor Estate vineyards. The 2023 vintage is a mic drop year for California Pinot, a consistently cool growing season that led to a late harvest. Mangahas hit the mark, earning this Russian River Valley bottling a rare back-to-back appearance in our Top 10.
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Wine Spectator's No. 5 Wine of 2025
Juliette Bécot’s wine career began in 2001 working alongside her father, Gérard, who had made the wines since 1967. When he retired in 2015, Juliette wanted to honor his legacy by having Beau-Séjour Bécot considered among St.-Emilion’s elite. She revamped the winemaking, focusing on freshness, detail and precision. She and her husband, Julien Barthe, oversaw the construction of a new cellar, including new vinification tanks and a range of aging vessels, from barrels to foudres to clay amphorae. Much of the estate’s 54 acres of vines underwent replanting as well. Consulting winemaker Thomas Duclos joined in 2017, technical director Jean de Cournuaud in 2018. This estate is now among those leading the appellation.
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Wine Spectator's No. 6 Wine of 2025
When Alexandra Marnier-Lapostolle purchased vineyards in Apalta in 1994, her undertaking of excellence began with a vision to create a world-class wine. Few wineries have achieved such notoriety with Carmenère as Clos Apalta, which has made the under-the-radar grape the star of its flagship wine, earning Wine of the Year honors in 2008 with its Clos Apalta Colchagua Valley 2005. Marnier-Lapostolle’s son Charles de Bournet, in charge since 2013, and chief winemaker Andrea Leon have been honing the winery’s efforts on its Apalta estate and its mosaic of exceptional terroir with a forward-looking mindset for relentless improvement on this iconic Chilean winery’s history.
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Wine Spectator's No. 8 Wine of 2025
On the Sonoma Coast, the Wayfarer vineyard began anonymously when it was planted in 2002 by Napa Valley–based vineyard guru David Abreu. (It remains his only Sonoma planting to date.) The fruit was initially blended with other sources into a Sonoma Coast bottling under Jayson Pahlmeyer’s namesake label. Daughter Cleo Pahlmeyer joined the family business in 2008, taking the project under her wing, and Wayfarer debuted in 2012 as an independent label. When Jayson sold the business to Gallo in 2019, the second-generation vintner kept Wayfarer and its high-elevation jewel-box vineyard. The Estate bottling, under the hand of winemaker Todd Kohn, combines fruit from all parcels, including 11 clonal selections of Pinot Noir in the vineyard.
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Wine Spectator's No. 7 Wine of 2025
In the 19th century, wine producers in Barbaresco made a bid to join the neighboring—and more prestigious—Barolo zone. When their overtures were rejected in 1894, local enologist Domizio Cavazza founded the Barbaresco region’s first winery cooperative. It ceased operations sometime after World War I but was reborn in 1958 as the Produttori del Barbaresco. Today, focusing exclusively on Nebbiolo grown in the commune of Barbaresco, this model co-op has also been well-served by a long line of homegrown leadership; current director Aldo Vacca, whose grandfathers were founding members, succeeded his father as the group’s director. This classic blended Barbaresco earned its highest rating to date in the stellar 2021 growing season.
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Wine Spectator's No. 9 Wine of 2025
The Castello di Ama style of elegance, intensity and tension has roots in its high-elevation vineyards, which range from 1,400 to 1,700 feet in the Gaiole UGA (Unità Geografica Aggiuntiva) of Chianti Classico. Wine production began in 1976, and today Lorenza Sebasti, a daughter of one of the founding families, co-owns and manages the estate with chief enologist Marco Pallanti, on board since 1982. The 2021 vintage delivered a quality benchmark for Chianti Classico, showcased in this brilliant red. With a bit of Merlot supporting the Sangiovese-based blend, Pallanti’s modern winemaking still honors the tradition-rooted Chianti Classico region, but it’s this wine’s sense of place that speaks loudest.
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Wine Spectator's No. 10 Wine of 2025
Isabel Ferrando has drawn attention since her debut 2003 vintage. Despite being a newcomer to the region, leaving a career in finance to learn winemaking, she has become a leading face of Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s modern era. Fans know her wines under the Domaine St.-Préfert label, but in 2020 she began a new chapter, changing the name to Famille Isabel Ferrando. Joined by daughter Guillemette, she returned to the Châteauneuf tradition of blending her vineyard parcels into a single cuvée. Sourced from Ferrando’s original holdings in the Les Serres lieu-dit planted to Grenache, Cinsault and Mourvèdre in the hottest, driest part of the appellation, it’s a wine of elegance and freshness.
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A Sneak Peek at the New Brasserie Broulud
Breathe a sigh of relief: Daniel Boulud is coming back to the Upper West Side! Chef Daniel Boulud's new brasserie, which is opening soon, but doesn't have a confirmed opening date yet, will take over the spaces that were formerly home to Épicerie Boulud and Bar Boulud. We chatted with Daniel about what to expect from the new spot, why he's excited to be back on the West Side and a few other secrets …
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Falling into Fall Wines
It's the first day of fall 🍂 and we're gearing up with all of our favorite fall sips 🍷 From Pinot Noir to the Rhône, what are you most excited to drink this fall?👇️
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Inside the Cellar with Restaurant Daniel Chef Sommelier Erin Healy
Erin Healy is the Chef Sommelier at Wine Spectator Grand Award winner Restaurant Daniel in New York City and she's got some hot takes 🔥 We went inside the cellar at Restaurant Daniel to talk Condrieu, dive bar rosé and all things Daniel.
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We Tried the New Moët Serve at the US Open
We tried the brand new Moët Serve at the US Open made with Moët & Chandon's Ice Imperial Champagne 🎾 Read all about it: https://www.winespectator.com/articles/a-new-champagne-cocktail-at-the-u-s-open
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The Napa Valley Taco Tour
The Ultimate Napa Valley Taco Tour 🌮 And which wines to BYOB 🍷 https://napatravel.winespectator.com/features/napa-taco-tour
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St. Helena as Told By the Locals
St. Helena is the valley's beating heart, where Highway 29 doubles as the town's main street and nearly 100 wineries crowd the most densely planted sub-AVA in Napa. Link in bio for our complete guide to St. Helena 🍷
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Stefan Doktor of Schloss Johannisberg on Their 100 Year Cuvée
Stefan Doktor is the managing director of Schloss Johannisberg, located in Rheingau, Germany. He chatted with us about his love of Riesling Spätlese and the exciting new release of their Ex Bibliotheca Cuvée 100. Read about 6 other German winemakers to know right now at the link in bio!
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Rutherford as told by the Locals
A blink-and-you'll-miss-it spot on Highway 29 with a population of just 100, where Inglenook, Beaulieu Vineyard and the famed Rutherford Dust have shaped Napa Cabernet for more than a century. This is Rutherford, as told by the locals. Link in bio for our ultimate guide to Rutherford.
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Maximin von Schuber on the 1500 Year History of Maximin Grünhaus
Sixth-generation owner Maximin von Schubert is guiding Weingut Maximin Grünhaus into a new era of precise, terroir-driven Rieslings. He sat down with us to talk about what makes his estate so special. For more: https://www.winespectator.com/articles/maximin-von-schubert-grunhaus-germany-riesling-profile
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Does Sarah Jessica Parker actually like a cosmopolitan?
The burning question women has been asking for the last 25 years....
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Oakville as Told by the Locals
Oakville is sacred ground for Cabernet Sauvignon, packed with the highest concentration of benchmark estates in Napa Valley into a stretch of road that visitors can miss in a blink. We spoke with some Oakville locals about their corner of Napa Valley. https://napatravel.winespectator.com/regions/oakville
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We Tried The New "Mystery Date" Blind Wine
We tried Martha Stoumen's new "Mystery Date" wine: a bottle designed to be tasted blind—there’s no grape, vintage or region on the label. Let's see how our Wine Spectator staff did 🍷 https://www.winespectator.com/articles/mystery-date-blind-tasting-martha-stoumen-sonoma