The longtime plea to "keep politics out of wine" ignores the fact that wine has always been political, and that drinking it can act as both rebellion and discovery.
Meet the avant-grüners, a new generation of the classic Austrian party wine.
The category of lightly fizzy, sometimes cloudy sparkling wines has gone from somewhat-niche party wine to full-on brand.
Your annual guide to the producers, trends, objects and terms defining wine today.
A growing group of distillers wants to bring the values and language that unified natural winemakers to the largely industrial world of spirits.
By focusing on co-ferments, hybrids and foraged ingredients, the Anything But Vinifera movement is creating a more expansive and accessible definition of wine.
The movement is no longer content to just play the hits.
As wine becomes further entrenched in nightlife, its dedicated spaces are becoming less reverent, more urgent and sometimes chaotic (in a good way).
The two wine terms are separated by more than just a single letter.
The category has evolved from dealcoholized versions of familiar wines into freewheeling products that defy easy classification. Here are the bottles worth seeking out.
