Zachary Sussman

Zachary Sussman is a Brooklyn-based wine writer whose work has appeared in Saveur, Wine & Spirits, The World of Fine Wine, Food & Wine and The Wall Street Journal Magazine, among many others. He was selected as the 2016 Champagne Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer of the Year and is the author of the forthcoming The Essential Wine Book from Ten Speed Press (October 2020).

Wine

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

Wine

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

Wine

American Sparkling Wine, Untitled

Unbound by preconception, the Northeast’s embrace of hybrid grapes has introduced a fearless new frontier in American wine.

story: Zachary Sussman
illustration: Carmela Caldart

Wine

Natural Lambrusco Is Just the Beginning

Returning to old traditions, the frizzante wines of Emilia-Romagna are ready for their pét-nat moment.

story: Zachary Sussman
illustration: Carmela Caldart

Wine

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

Wine

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

Places

Can a Wine Go Global Without Being “Globalized”?

After centuries of primarily local consumption, the wines grown within Vienna’s city limits have been thrust into the international spotlight.

story: Zachary Sussman
photos: Josef Polleross

Beer

How Loirette Became the Official Beer of the Natural Wine World

“I was primed to fetishize it, a ‘beer for natural wine geeks’—and fetishize it I did.”

story: Zachary Sussman
photo: Lizzie Munro

Wine

Inside the Wine Cellar at Passionfish

The five bottles that define one of America's most affordable, and adventurous, wine lists.

story: Zachary Sussman
photos: Nic Coury

Wine

Inside the Wine Cellar at Portland’s Canard

At the latest venture from the team behind Le Pigeon and Little Bird, partner and wine director Andy Fortgang is redefining what a "casual" wine list should look like.

story: Zachary Sussman
photos: Kimberley Hasselbrink