America’s Best Specialty Wine Shops
From an orange wine specialist to a bottle-and-book shop, here are some of the most innovative small wine retailers across the country.
- story: Megan Krigbaum
- photo: Rob Culpepper
Natural Wine Sets Its Sights on Vermouth
Winemakers are demonstrating that vermouth can be just as variable and expressive of place as wine itself.
- story: Jordan Michelman
- photo: Lizzie Munro
America’s Original Natural Wine Shop?
Before Chambers Street, Terroir or the dozens of other natural wine-focused stores around the country, there was Vineyard Gate.
- story: Nino Padova
- photo: Alex Bernardo
Upgrade Your Cocktail With Five Easy Wine Syrups
How to turn leftover wine into versatile syrups, and the drinks to try them in.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The Tavern Glass Is a Feeling
A departure from the glass-for-each-variety mindset of the past several decades, the short-stemmed glass is emblematic of a looser, less dogmatic wine world.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Erin Dwia
The Essential Vermouths for Mixing
The brands to stock in every style, plus how to use them.
- story: Brad Thomas Parsons
- photo: Anthony J. Rayburn
Can a Wine Actually Be “Crunchy”?
A staple of the modern sommelier lexicon, the term captures the difficulty of articulating the convergence of taste and texture.
- story: Danny Chau
- photo: Mallory Heyer
The Ultimate Wine Glass Buying Guide
The best go-tos and splurges in every category, plus our favorite outliers.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Rocío Egío
Sherry’s Indie Moment
A growing number of independent bottlers is aiming to showcase a more nuanced, variable side to fino, manzanilla and more.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Drink Culture Doesn’t Have a “Foodie.” Here’s Why.
The term is now the food world’s most universally maligned, but is not having an equivalent worse?
- story: Danny Chau
- illustration: Mallory Heyer
The Decanter Is Hoping for a Redo
In the mid-aughts, the decanter earned a reputation as a symbol of wine's most opulent proclivities. Can a set of designs aimed at functionality endear it to today's drinkers?
- story: Emily Wilson
- illustration: Andy Bourne
Biodynamic, Natural and Infused With Rose Petals?
A handful of natural winemakers is pushing the limits of co-fermentation, aromatizing their wines with everything from chestnut flowers to sumac berries and basil.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Erin Dwia