What We’re Into Right Now
A monthly installment covering what, where and how the editors of PUNCH are drinking.
- story: Punch Staff
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A monthly installment covering what, where and how the editors of PUNCH are drinking.
In recent years, Saumur has become something of an anomaly within the Loire Valley, consistently making wines more ambitious than history has dictated. Jon Bonné on the future of the…
Welcome to "Crib Sheet," your monthly shortcut to what's hot in wine right now, in four bottles, courtesy of Jon Bonné. This month: standout Spanish reds from Galicia.
Why are older wines priced the way they are? Megan Krigbaum talks to sommeliers helming the nation's top vintage lists and discovers that the process is far more complicated than…
Just what should Barossa and McLaren Vale’s wines offer the world? In the second part of a journey through the New Australia, Jon Bonné looks at the regions that built…
Rhapsodizing about wine can seem superficial in fraught times, but it represents values that have never been more important. Zachary Sussman on what we mean by “world of wine,” and…
Among America’s most progressive wine lists, which producers act as universal touchstones? Megan Krigbaum surveys dozens to come up with a shortlist of the who’s who of wine cool.
Welcome to "Crib Sheet," your monthly shortcut to what's hot in wine right now, in four bottles, courtesy of Jon Bonné. This month: the new-new California chardonnay.
The concept of the "deathbed" drink—that hypothetical glass with which we toast our own mortality—has been around for centuries. Here, a group of industry experts answer the question: "How would…
Both Côte-Rôtie and Cornas have entered the spotlight after decades in the shadows. Jon Bonné considers how the rush of fame has affected these regions, and what it signals for…
As both Côte-Rôtie and Cornas grapple with the fame they've garnered over the last few decades, producers in both places have emerged as both standard bearers and symbols of the…
From talking truth about natural wine to California’s newest up-and-comers to worries over labor and immigration, Jon Bonné lays out the wine stories that will make a difference in 2017.