What’s It Like to Work in Wine Right Now?
Daily stories from sommeliers, retailers, winemakers and importers working in the wake of COVID-19.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Is This Wine OK?
The 20-second tableside dance between guest and sommelier reveals a lot about wine today.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- illustration: Raphaelle Macron
California Doesn’t Do Champagne
After decades of emulating French tradition, the state has forged a new, improvisational approach to the category. It’s now home to some of the most innovative sparkling wines anywhere.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- illustration: Carmela Caldart
France’s “Disco Wines” Are Not Dead
Once shunted to the uncool fringe of French wine, Gaillac is now a perfect match for modern taste—and a model for its Southwest neighbors.
- story: Jon Bonné
- illustration: Maria Hergueta
What We’re Into Right Now
A Thai-style Michelada, a standout Martini, the perfect party wine and more.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Shannon Sturgis
What Wine Twitter Taught Me About Wine
One writer wades into the heart of wine’s conflict zone to see what he can learn about the values and anxieties that define its culture today.
- story: Danny Chau
- illustration: Raphaelle Macaron
Sake’s Radical Awakening
Drawing comparisons to the natural wine movement, sake’s avant-garde is reinvigorating the category by challenging everything we thought we knew about it.
- story: Tom Downey
- photos: Jérémie Souteyrat
Don’t Call It “Sparkling Wine”
In record time, the category has become freewheeling and heterogeneous, with a mix of techniques, traditions and regional iterations. That's a good thing.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- illustration: Carmela Caldart
Where Are Natural Wine’s Next Frontiers?
Two regions—one old world, one new—are staking a claim within the ever-evolving movement.
- story: Alice Feiring
- illustration: Rymie
Where Is America’s Great Wine Show?
In the age of streaming, in which nearly every subculture has its own show, somehow wine has been left behind.
- story: Emily Timberlake
- photo: The Wine Show
The New Who’s Who of Wine Cool
Among America’s most progressive wine lists, which producers act as universal touchstones in 2020?
- story: Megan Krigbaum
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Orange Wine Has Its Own Club Now
Orange Glou is a surefire sign we’ve hit peak skin contact.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Orange Glou