Zachary Sussman

Zachary Sussman is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has appeared in Saveur, The World of Fine Wine, Food & Wine and The Wall Street Journal Magazine, among many others. Formerly selected as the Champagne Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer of the Year and nominated as a finalist for the 2022 IACP Food Writing Awards, he is the author of The Essential Wine Book and Sparkling Wine for Modern Times from Ten Speed Press. He works and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

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

Wine

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

Wine

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

Wine

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