Zachary Sussman is a Brooklyn-based wine writer whose work has appeared in Saveur, Wine & Spirits, Bon Appétit and The Wall Street Journal Magazine, among many others. He received the award for 2016 Emerging Wine Writer of the Year from the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards.
Zachary Sussman
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
Wine Doesn’t Make Itself
Has our singular focus on the expression of a place devalued the actual “making” inherent to all great wines?
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photo: Erik Castro
Inside the Wine Cellar at Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine
In this round of "Anatomy of a Wine Cellar," we go behind the scenes at Frasca Food & Wine, where Bobby Stuckey, Carlin Karr and Matthew Mather oversee one of…
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photos: Rebecca Stumpf
Inside the Wine Cellar at Chez Panisse
Longtime sommelier Jonathan Waters on the five bottles that define the legendary Berkeley restaurant today.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photos: Aubrie Pick
Inside the Wine Cellar at Houston’s Public Services
Behind the scenes at Houston's Public Services, where Justin Vann has sought to build a meaningful bond between wine and spirits.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photos: Kirsten Gilliam
Will We Let Santorini Be More Than Just a Source for “Beach Wines”?
Santorini rose to fame thanks to a single style of bright, crisp assyrtiko. But it’s capable of so much more.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photo: Wines from Santorini
Behind the Backbar at Chicago’s Scofflaw
In this round of “Anatomy of a Backbar,” Scofflaw’s Danny Shapiro curates a collection of gin that highlights the dizzying array of styles available today.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photo: Christie LaMountain
Inside the Wine Cellar at New York’s Babbo
In this round of "Anatomy of a Wine Cellar," we go behind the scenes at Babbo, the restaurant that effectively invented the regional Italian wine list as we know it…
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photos: Daniel Krieger
Behind the Backbar at LA’s Caña Rum Bar
Caña Rum Bar's Erbin Garcia curates a deep collection of rums that showcases the spirit's rich history and stylistic diversity.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photo: Peter Stanislaus
The ’90s Magazine That Courted Wine’s Early Counterculture
In its successful, decade-long run, Wine X magazine offered a subversive—if sometimes misguided—take on wine aimed at a new generation of drinkers.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photo: Wine X
