Is This Wine OK?
The 20-second tableside dance between guest and sommelier reveals a lot about wine today.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- illustration: Raphaelle Macron
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
What Wine Twitter Taught Me About Wine
One writer wades into the heart of wine’s conflict zone to see what he can learn about the values and anxieties that define its culture today.
- story: Danny Chau
- illustration: Raphaelle Macaron
Sake’s Radical Awakening
Drawing comparisons to the natural wine movement, sake’s avant-garde is reinvigorating the category by challenging everything we thought we knew about it.
- story: Tom Downey
- photos: Jérémie Souteyrat
Where Is America’s Great Wine Show?
In the age of streaming, in which nearly every subculture has its own show, somehow wine has been left behind.
- story: Emily Timberlake
- photo: The Wine Show
The New Who’s Who of Wine Cool
Among America’s most progressive wine lists, which producers act as universal touchstones in 2020?
- story: Megan Krigbaum
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Neal Rosenthal | Founder, Rosenthal Wine Merchant
When Neal Rosenthal took over his father’s Upper East Side pharmacy-turned-liquor store in 1977, he couldn’t have predicted that it would mark the start of his decades-long career in wine.…
- story: Chloe Frechette
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What Drink Trends Should Disappear in 2020?
This year saw the rise of piquette, foraged beers and White Claw. Which trends have what it takes to stick it out through the new year?
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The Wine Stories That Will Shape 2020
From The Tariffs to the rise of Argentina, Jon Bonné lays out the wine stories that will make a difference in 2020.
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2019
From mastering the Amaretto Sour with Jeffrey Morgenthaler to exploring suburban New Jersey's secret bar scene, here's a look back at the most popular stories on PUNCH this year.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: YouTube
