America’s Best Specialty Wine Shops
From an orange wine specialist to a bottle-and-book shop, here are some of the most innovative small wine retailers across the country.
- story: Megan Krigbaum
- photo: Rob Culpepper
Natural Wine Sets Its Sights on Vermouth
Winemakers are demonstrating that vermouth can be just as variable and expressive of place as wine itself.
- story: Jordan Michelman
- photo: Lizzie Munro
America’s Original Natural Wine Shop?
Before Chambers Street, Terroir or the dozens of other natural wine-focused stores around the country, there was Vineyard Gate.
- story: Nino Padova
- photo: Alex Bernardo
Upgrade Your Cocktail With Five Easy Wine Syrups
How to turn leftover wine into versatile syrups, and the drinks to try them in.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The Tavern Glass Is a Feeling
A departure from the glass-for-each-variety mindset of the past several decades, the short-stemmed glass is emblematic of a looser, less dogmatic wine world.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Erin Dwia
Can a Wine Actually Be “Crunchy”?
A staple of the modern sommelier lexicon, the term captures the difficulty of articulating the convergence of taste and texture.
- story: Danny Chau
- photo: Mallory Heyer
Drink Culture Doesn’t Have a “Foodie.” Here’s Why.
The term is now the food world’s most universally maligned, but is not having an equivalent worse?
- story: Danny Chau
- illustration: Mallory Heyer
The Decanter Is Hoping for a Redo
In the mid-aughts, the decanter earned a reputation as a symbol of wine's most opulent proclivities. Can a set of designs aimed at functionality endear it to today's drinkers?
- story: Emily Wilson
- illustration: Andy Bourne
To Catch a “Unicorn” Wine
The term emerged in the mid-2010s as sommelier shorthand for a faddish rarity. Is it a dying breed?
- story: Danny Chau
- illustration: Mallory Heyer
So Everyone’s in a Wine Club Now?
Over the last 50-plus years, the wine club has gone from stuffy boys’ club fodder to niche restaurant selections. The pandemic has led to an explosion of options that go…
- story: Megan Krigbaum
- photo: Kimberley Hasselbrink
