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California Wine

california sparkling wine
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
Winemakers Modelo Beer
Wine

Why Do So Many Winemakers Love Modelo?

It takes a lot of beer to make wine. But what kind, exactly?

  • story: Christopher Ross
  • photos: Multiple
guide to alt california wine
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
California Cab Franc
Wine

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
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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
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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
California Chardonnay Wine
Wine

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
Wine Trends 2017
Wine

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
hot 25 essential wines of 2016
Wine

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
Wine o Clock
Wine

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
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Not Your Grandfather’s Blended Scotch
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Not Your Grandfather’s Blended Scotch

Long considered an afterthought among serious drinkers, the blended Scotch category is slowly becoming a hotbed for innovation.

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