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Aglianico grapes from Southern Italy are full of polyphenols such as resveratrol and quercetin, proven to have many medicinal properties.

Wine Grapes Could be the Key to Treating Vision Loss from Diabetes

A recent study by Italian scientists suggests that a supplement made from Aglianico grapes could help treat diabetic retinopathy

Dec 6, 2024

One of the auction’s top lots featured nine magnums of the celebrated super Tuscan from successive years.

A Super Auction for a Super Tuscan: Tignanello Attracts Big Bids at Christie’s

Bottles of the Sangiovese blend, sourced straight from Antinori’s cellars, raised nearly $150,000 in a sale celebrating the Chianti Classico estate’s 50th anniversary

Dec 9, 2024

Flora Springs Winery has a striking tasting room on Highway 29 near St. Helena.

Jean-Charles Boisset and Gina Gallo-Boisset Buy Napa’s Flora Springs Winery

The industry veterans begin their first winery collaboration with the St. Helena estate

Dec 6, 2024

While trends can be hard to predict and legislation on the horizon may present some challenges, senior editor Mitch Frank believes that the best is still yet to come for the wine industry.

Cheers to 2025

Senior editor Mitch Frank predicts a new year of changing trends for the wine world

From the Dec 31, 2024, issue

Alison Napjus, senior editor and lead taster for Champagne, highlights that both grower producer and big house Champagnes have merit on the market and in your glass.

Champagne’s Great Debate Is Not So Great

Rumors of rivalry between big houses and growers have been greatly exaggerated

Alison Napjus

From the Dec 31, 2024, issue

Château du Moulin-à-Vent’s Edouard Parinet (at left) organized the auction to support Wine on Wheels, a nonprofit led by sommelier and disability advocate Yannick Benjamin.

Rare Large-Format Wines—Plus a Signed Bob Gruen Photo of Bob Dylan—Up for Auction to Support Wine on Wheels

Château du Moulin-à-Vent’s Edouard Parinet rallies winemakers to support sommelier Yannick Benjamin’s disability nonprofit

Kenny Martin

Dec 3, 2024

Left to right, Jean Reno (left, with microphone), Eva Longoria, Zabou Breitman and Dominic West (at the podium), joined auction officials onstage to stoke the crowd during bidding on the auction’s top lot.

Burgundy’s Hospices de Beaune Auction Raises Over $15 Million for Health Charities

Dominic West and Eva Longoria encouraged the bidding on a special barrel of white Burgundy for Doctors Without Borders and the Global Gift Foundation

Kenny Martin

Nov 26, 2024

Turn that boat around! Last time Donald Trump passed tariffs on wine, many bottles got more expensive halfway across the Atlantic.

Wine Merchants Are Right That Tariffs Hurt Americans—Does Donald Trump Care?

Restaurants, retailers and importers are gearing up for more trade battles, but the White House could enact across-the-board duties on all foreign goods

Mitch Frank

Nov 22, 2024

Chef Charlie Trotter was a believer in great food, amazing wine and giving back.

Charlie Trotter’s Château Margaux 1900 Sells—Three Times—For a Combined $475,000 for Emeril Lagasse’s Charity

Wine Spectator editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken purchased the auction lot for $100,000, then donated it back to be sold again

Mitch Frank

Nov 18, 2024

Wilson Daniels president Rocco Lombardo joins Wine Spectator's Straight Talk podcast with host James Molesworth.

Straight Talk Episode 27: The Top 10 Wines of 2024 and the State of the Wine Industry

We're counting all the way down to Wine Spectator's 2024 Wine of the Year in this episode! Plus, a look at the economic state of the U.S. wine market with a longtime industry insider

Robert Taylor

Nov 15, 2024

Enjoy hand-sliced jamón and Portuguese bites at Emeril Lagasse's latest venture, 34 Restaurant and Bar.

Emeril Lagasse and Son Open Their New Restaurant, an Ode to Portugal

34 Restaurant & Bar in New Orleans offers a full range of the country’s wines. Plus, Quality Brands opens Twin Tails in Midtown Manhattan

Nov 14, 2024

Bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti—and these are authentic ones—are some of the most prized wines in the world.

An Accused Russian Counterfeiter and Burgundy Bottles Filled with Italian Wine

European investigators have uncovered a wine counterfeiting ring allegedly masterminded by a familiar face

Suzanne Mustacich

Nov 12, 2024

Chefs Daniel Boulud, Charlie Trotter, Emeril Lagasse and José Andrés, left to right, appeared together at the 2011 New York Wine Experience.

Auctiongoers Can Bid on Late Chef Charlie Trotter’s Dream Meal and a Bottle of Château Margaux 1900

Emeril Lagasse’s annual charity auction, Carnivale du Vin, is offering a rare wine from Trotter's collection, as well as two wines from the Paris Tasting of 1976

Mitch Frank

Nov 11, 2024

Shriveled grapes hang from a vine, unpicked, near Lodi, California, where the oversupply of grapes and declining demand for wine have hurt growers.

California’s Wine Crisis—Too Many Grapes

A glut of grapes and sagging consumer demand are forcing vintners to make tough decisions

Tim Fish

Nov 7, 2024

The new Gigondas Blanc white wines are required to contain a minimum of 70 percent Clairette, writes senior editor Kristen Bieler.

Gigondas Blanc Est Arrivé!

One of the Southern Rhône’s most sought-after appellations premieres its new white wine

Kristen Bieler

From the Dec 15, 2024, issue

Bella Oaks winemaker Nigel Kinsman, general manager Shae Kinsman and owner Suzanne Deal Booth, left to right, are also all involved at Wheeler Farms.

Napa's Araujo Family Sells Wheeler Farms Winery to the Owner of Bella Oaks

Winemaker Nigel Kinsman will continue to make Suzanne Deal Booth’s Bella Oaks wines along with Accendo and other projects at the Rutherford custom-crush facility and hospitality center

James Molesworth

Nov 4, 2024

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