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.

Places

Into the Heart of Wine’s Lost Region

The ancient wine region of Colares is fast succumbing to development and decay, even as the world has started to rediscover it. Zachary Sussman on what the slow extinction of…

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photos: Filipe Lucas Frazão

Places

What Does a Ralph Lauren Wine List Look Like?

A wine list inherently communicates a set of values, especially if that list is meant to reflect the identity of an international fashion brand. In the latest, "The List," Zachary…

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illustration: Natalie K Nelson

Places

A New Extreme for Underwater Wine Aging

The discovery of the ocean as an ideal cellar has yielded a rash of new underwater-aged wines—but many of them are no different from their land-aged brethren. Zachary Sussman on…

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photo: Julie Beneau + Jean Luc Lametrie

Places

The Epic Wine List Is Not Dead

Welcome to "The List," a column exploring the country's most notable wine lists. This week, New York columnist Zachary Sussman visits Rebelle, Patrick Cappiello's new Bowery wine destination with an…

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illustration: Natalie K. Nelson

Wine

What Is “Pét-Nat,” Really?

The lightly bubbly, often cloudy style of sparkling wine called pétillant-naturel—aka "pét-nat"—seemed to come out of nowhere to stake its claim as the wine trend of the moment. But what…

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photo: PUNCH

Places

New York’s Best New Wine Bar Lives in Brooklyn

Welcome to "The List," a column exploring the country's most notable wine lists. This week, New York columnist Zachary Sussman visits June, a new Brooklyn wine bar that offers a…

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illustration: Natalie K Nelson

Wine

Nicolas Joly and the Loire’s Wine Culture War

In the Loire Valley—the hotbed of the natural wine movement—a growing number of producers are at odds with the region's regulatory body. Zachary Sussman on the significance of iconic winemaker…

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photo: La Coulée de Serrant

Wine

How Champagne Snuck onto New York’s Italian Wine Lists

Welcome to "The List," a column exploring the country's most notable wine lists. This week, Zachary Sussman on why some of NYC's Italian restaurants—notably Marta and Maialino—are among the city's…

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illustration: Natalie K Nelson

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Wine

Growing Pains: The Shifting Image of Champagne

Champagne Louis Roederer's release of its first "Brut Nature" wine, adorned with a minimalist label and a narrative that reads more "grower" than Grands Marques, has cracked open a discussion…

story: Zachary Sussman
illustration: Jen Kruch

Places

Is the Jura Dealing with the “Urban Outfitters Effect”?

When news broke that one of the Jura's beloved producers will lease vineyard land to famed Burgundy winemaker Guillaume d'Angerville, it inspired a wealth of complaints and speculation. Is the…

story: Zachary Sussman
photo: David B.