Wine

6 Affordable Champagne Alternatives

Champagne is delicious.

The Best Wines to Drink on Valentine’s Day
When it comes to picking out a wine for dinner, you’ll want somethin…
A New Bourbon Whiskey Named After a Golf Course...
A mountain of booze passes through the Gear Patrol office every mont…
5 Wines That Just Get Better With Time

Forget checks and fancy cookware.
Buy Better Wine With This Sommelier-Approved...
Master Sommelier-approved wines, minus the abstract flavor descripto…
Jul 7, 2015
Everything You Wanted to Know about the Effects of Oak Aging on Wine

Think you hate oaked Chardonnay? Or love the toasty notes that oak imparts?

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Jun 30, 2015
How Climate Affects Wine Grapes

Growing Pinot Noir in Napa Valley is like growing apples in Puerto Rico.

Apr 22, 2015
The 10 Best Wineries of New Zealand

New Zealand’s 11 wine regions are growing in popularity; wine is now the country’s sixth-largest export.

Apr 22, 2015
Talking Wine with New Zealand’s Only Master Sommelier

Cameron Douglas is a Kiwi who knows good wine.

Apr 2, 2015
To Understand Wine, Start with the Grape

How does wine get its color, texture, sugar, acid and — uh — other things?

Dec 26, 2014
The Best Sparkling Wine Under $30

Here are ten of the best bottles of bubbly on the market.

Dec 23, 2014
The Best Boxed Wines of 2014
We conducted a blind tasting of 16 of the best available boxed wine (8 white, 8 red). A few tasted like our worst box wine memories of …
Dec 19, 2014
New York’s Finger Lakes Wine Finds Its Way

At long last, New York’s Finger Lakes wine region is gaining recognition, both nationally and abroad.

Oct 31, 2014
Wine Preservation’s Silver Bullet
Through crafty engineering, some physics, and one medically precise needle, the Coravin 1000 uncorks a world of wine possibilities (wit…
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Aug 29, 2014
Tasting Notes: Taylor Fladgate 1964 Single Harvest

Taylor Fladgate, one of the council of elders in the Port world, released a 50-year-old tawny port in 2014.

Aug 22, 2014
More Mature With Age
I come from a family of beer drinkers, firmly rooted in the blue-collar heritage of my grandfather’s construction and carpentry busines…
Aug 22, 2014
Better off Red: Great Bottles Under $20

You and Andrew Jackson walk into a wine store.

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Aug 1, 2014
White Wine? Just Can It
We got our hands on five canned white wines to find out if they’re a clever packaging solution or just an excuse to drink more white wi…
Jun 6, 2014
A Learned Man’s Guide to Rose
Rosé season is upon us, and while we generally advocate for consumption of pink wine year round, the same warm weather that begs for dr…
Nov 15, 2013
Mulled Wine, Three Ways
Mulled wine is the perfect drink for the holiday season: just pleasant and alcoholic enough to warm everyone up, but not like handing o…