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Has Fine Wine Hit its Price Floor?

Burgundy — the region everyone said was bulletproof — is down about a third from its 2022 peak. This week is aletter from London, where the fine wine secondary market act

Anya Myalyuk, @winewithanya

Anya Myalyuk was born above the Arctic Circle, in a familywhere her father drank vodka and her mother drank Soviet champagne. She arrived in New York at twenty-two with

Unbridled Enthusiasm

I was on a hillside in Napa, twenty minutes into geeking out about a vineyard, when my friend Chandler — whocould not care less about the Harlan family tree — started bea

Doug Frost, Master of Wine and Master Somm

Doug Frost's uncle poured him a 1968 Louis Martini SpecialSelect Pinot Noir when he was fifteen — his first glass of wine ever. He told that story so often that Mike Mart

Ray Isle, Food & Wine Magazine

Ray Isle's first real memory of wine is lying on a floor incollege while someone squeezed it into his mouth from a bag. The bottle that actually changed things was a Di

The $200 Million Mondavi Bet

How much would you spend on an idea that every analyst says is dying? This spring, Constellation Brands answered: two hundred million dollars. The Robert Mondavi Winery

Jacqueline Coleman, @historyandwine

Jacqueline Coleman is a fourth-generation Miamian who hasbeen covering South Florida wine since 2013 — but the whole thing started in Virginia, where a DC day job and a w

Amanda McCrossin - @SommVivant

This week: Amanda McCrossin —SommVivant — on why the wine industry doesn’t have a simplification problem, ithas a translation problem. Amanda is a certified sommelier wh

The Bourbon Reflex: Why American Men Won't Order the Wine They Actually Want

Four guys at a steakhouse order bourbon, an old fashioned, and a beer — and the guy who actually wants the Barolo orders bourbon anyway. This week's essay is about that

Rajat Parr - Superstar Somm Turned Farmer

This week: Raj Parr — one of the most influential sommeliers America has produced — on why he left the dining room for the dirt. Raj ran the wine program for the Michael

A Thing of Beauty: Remembering Sam Neill

In 1993, a working actor planted five acres of pinot noir at the bottom of the world, in a region most people said was too cold to grow anything serious. His neighbors th

Your Parents' Wine

What did your parents actually drink — not what they taught you about wine, but what was in the fridge? This week is a solo essay about that question, and the pattern it

Karen MacNeil, The Wine Bible

This week: Karen MacNeil —author of The Wine Bible, creator of WineSpeed, and founder of Come Over October — on the improbable road from a runaway teenager drinking 89-ce

Michael Amorosia, @TheAmorosiaCellar

This week: Michael Amorosia — founder of The Amorosia Cellar and former frontman of the faceless hardcore band REACTIONS — on why “wine is failing the room,” and how to m

The Arc of Life

The most personal essay Jon has shared on this show. It starts at a graduation — a giant fairground hall, his son crossing a stage on a monitor from thirty rows back, ei

Hillary Cole, Vineyards of War

This week: Hillary Cole — former Air Force intelligence officer and author of Vineyards of War — on what wine and warfare have always had in common.Hilary spent ten years

Kelli White, Napa Valley

This week: Kelli White — wine writer, decade-long sommelier, and director of education at Meadowood — on Napa as a conversion engine and why the way we talk about wine ke

The "Josh" Problem

Jon walked into a BMW dealership and put a deposit down on a car that hadn't arrived yet. He didn't need the salesperson to explain anything — the brand had spent decades

Kladstrups: Wine and War 25th Anniversary

Don and Petie Kladstrup are two of the most accomplishedjournalists to ever turn their lens toward wine. Don is a three-time Emmy winner who covered the fall of theBerli

Georgia Panagopoulou, @wine.gini

Georgia Panagopoulou was a chemical engineer. Then she walked away from a "safe corporate job" in the middle of Greece's financial crisis, moved to Santorini, and enrolle