VinePair

AUGUST 7, 2025

Red wines often hold more prestige — and loftier price tags — than their white counterparts. To save you from unnecessarily splurging, we asked wine pros from across the country to share which red wines they think are vastly overrated and might not be worth taking the plunge. Is any wine truly worth thousands of dollars?)

Sommelier

Imbibe Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

Between global tariffs, inflation, and myriad other challenges, the wine world has been going through some tough times, which means it’s more important than ever to support locally owned independent wine shops. wines, and carefully selected ciders and aperitifs. wines, and carefully selected ciders and aperitifs.

Wine

Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For Jorge Riera , the headline-making, French-heavy wine lists he created for New York City’s Frenchette aren’t especially new—for him. To Jon Bonné, managing editor of Resy and author of The New French Wine (Ten Speed Press, 2023), the return of France as a dominant news peg in the wine world feels a little like a homecoming.

Wine

Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

At 24, experiencing a full-on quarter-life crisis, I shifted my focus to beverages, earning my Certified Sommelier certificate. Over the next four years, I mastered the art of inventory, bar management, cocktail development, and wine list curation.

Live Music

VinePair

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This year was a rollercoaster for the wine industry. Natural disasters obliterated vineyards, large companies experienced major turnover, and scammers perpetuated distrust in wine retailers. The heavy investment in wineries this year signals that the industry’s major players aren’t losing faith in wine.

Wine

VinePair

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s a seemingly immutable reality for modern wine marketing as a concept. In a nutshell, the idea posits that fine wine — at least as it has existed in the market during our lifetime — requires cultural experience, intellectual investment, and refinement of taste to finally flip the switch of the proverbial lightbulb.

Wine

VinePair

MAY 15, 2025

And while we as viewers cope with the fictional end of the world in our own way (with a bowl of ice cream and a glass of wine, preferably under a weighted blanket), nothing helps a character cope better than booze if they can get their hands on it, of course. Neither is our obsession with consuming doomsday content.

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