What Is “Essential” Wine Today?
The latest addition to the PUNCH library is a modern guide to the rapidly changing world of wine.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Aaron Bernstein
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For Any Mood, Chablis
For retailers and sommeliers, Chablis wines have endured as go-to picks known for their versatility and approachability.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Beaujolais Got Expensive. Now What?
Once the quintessential bang-for-your-buck option on a wine list, Beaujolais has recently priced itself out of the $60 slot. Here’s what’s taken its place.
- story: Megan Krigbaum
- photo: Aubrie Pick
The Myth of “Old World” Wine
The binary of “old” and “new” world has always been fraught. What would happen if we dispelled with this framework altogether?
- story: James Sligh
- illustration: Joe Gough
Orange for Every Occasion
Five sommeliers and retailers pick the one skin-contact wine that they can't stop thinking about this season.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: PUNCH
A More Wondrous Wine Atlas
With his "Children's Atlas of Wine," sommelier James Sligh reimagines the traditional map through the lens of natural wine-and with fewer borders.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- illustration: Children's Atlas of Wine
The New Vocabulary of Wine
The words we use to talk about wine often say more about us than what's in the glass.
- story: Emily Timberlake
- illustrations: Rymie
“This Is Like the Northern Rhône Meets Beaujolais”
The bottle Femi Oyediran and Miles White can't stop thinking about is a Bierzo-bred red made by a prolific leader of "the new Spain" movement.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: PUNCH
Don’t Call Them Pét-Nat
The story of pét-nat's unstoppable rise is missing one key footnote: the historic wines, from Diois to Gaillac, it was inspired by.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- illustration: Carmela Caldart
Ulli Stein Is Future-Proofing the Mosel
In a region that’s become a cautionary tale about climate change, Stein has cut a paradoxical path between tradition and near-scandalous progress in his efforts to save it.
- story: Miguel de Leon
- illustration: Yazmin Butcher
About Those 2020 Drink Predictions
Robert Simonson and Jon Bonné revisit—and rewrite—the predictions they made for a year that didn't exactly go as planned.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Rymie
The New Cava Isn’t Called Cava
Once derided as Spain's answer to prosecco, cava is finding a new path, wedged somewhere between pét-nat and grower Champagne. Just don't expect to find the name on the label.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- illustration: Carmela Caldart