Classic Wines

Opening a bottle of wine is fraught with danger: What if the cork crumbles? What if you spill? What if—heaven forbid!—it’s a screw-top bottle: What then?

Fortunately, you have nothing to worr...

Wine is more popular in America now than it ever has been before. Sure, we’ve always been a beer culture—how else to explain those sexy, rock-and-roll beer commercials for flavorless, vaguely depressing brews?—but the joys of the v...

Though wine is really nothing more than fermented grape juice—we’re excluding things like “white merlot” here, or “peach-flavored white zinfandel”—it is the result of countless hours of work in both the vine...

Ask any connoisseur where the world’s greatest wines are produced and you’re likely to hear the same regions you would have ten or twenty years ago: Burgundy, Bordeaux, Napa—the usual suspects.

But in recent ...