California Wine
The Insider’s Guide to Alt-California
The essential producers, wines and methods that define the “alt” branch of New California.
- story: Jon Bonné
- illustration: Matt Allen
Your Guide to the Other California Cabernet
The new wave California cabernet francs you should be drinking right now.
- story: Jon Bonné
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Daily News: From Wine Country to Weed Country, Translating Chicago Into Cocktail Form
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - America's largest wine distributor is also the largest donor to California's lawmakers. - The Chicago Tribune has challenged local bartenders…
- story: Chloe Frechette
Daily News: Drinking in Ireland, Italian Prison Wine
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - An uptick in immigration raids has prompted American wineries to contemplate the effects that deportation of undocumented immigrants…
- story: Punch Staff
Your Guide to California Chardonnay’s Third Wave
Welcome to "Crib Sheet," your monthly shortcut to what's hot in wine right now, in four bottles, courtesy of Jon Bonné. This month: the new-new California chardonnay.
- story: Jon Bonné
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The Wine Stories That Will Shape 2017
From talking truth about natural wine to California’s newest up-and-comers to worries over labor and immigration, Jon Bonné lays out the wine stories that will make a difference in 2017.
- story: Jon Bonné
- illustration: Yoonhwa Jang
The 25 Essential Wines of 2016
Meet this year's "Hot 25"—the bottles that represent everything we love about today's ever-expanding wine world.
- story: Jon Bonné
- illustration: Vidhya Nagarajan
The American Nouveau Wines to Drink Now
The recent American adoption of the "nouveau" style long associated solely with Beaujolais continues. Zachary Sussman on the best bottles to drink this season.
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photo: Lizzie Munro
A New Era for White Wine
A sea change seizing the world of white wine making dashes long-held notions of how it should be made—and how the resulting wines should taste. Jon Bonné on what defines…
- story: Jon Bonné
- illustration: Maddie Edgar
Daily News: Whiskey Brands Embrace Disaster, Mexico’s Top Mixologist
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - Imbibe investigates how California-based wineries are responding to the new norm of drought and wildfire. - According to Aaron…
- story: Chloe Frechette
