As people once again enjoy traveling and mingling free from COVID restrictions, Wine Spectator looks forward to gathering with longtime readers and new friends at its annual Grand Tour tastings, and tickets for the three evening events are now on sale. After a highly successful run in late 2021 after a year off due to
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A new study has added to the evidence that moderate wine drinking could protect your mind as you age. The report by researchers at Penn State University, Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and other institutions found that the consumption of flavonoids—polyphenolic compounds found in plant-based foods, including grapes and wine—could lower mortality
Difficult, expensive wine projects have exerted a lifelong gravitational pull on Pablo Álvarez Mezquíriz—one that has not weakened with time. Two years shy of his 70th birthday—the date he has promised to step down as chief executive officer of his Vega Sicilia Spanish wine empire—Álvarez just announced he is building a new winery in Galicia,
Atlanta restaurant Lazy Betty, a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence winner, is making its dining experience more inclusive and comfortable for those with sensory processing needs, such as people with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, autism and post-traumatic stress disorder. The restaurant’s team has been working toward this goal with nonprofit KultureCity, which specializes in helping businesses
Firefighters raced to the Larson Family Winery, a small producer in the Carneros region of Sonoma, on the evening of March 2, as a fire raged through the barn that serves as the winery’s tasting room. They were able to save adjacent structures, including the winery. The majority of the winery’s inventory was also spared,
The two Englishmen started showing up at investor conferences in 2015, armed with an enticing proposition. Attendees could, via their London-based wine brokerage, Bordeaux Cellars, lend money to wealthy borrowers-in-a-bind who needed fast loans, no questions asked. The lenders would receive interest at the rate of 12 percent, paid quarterly. Normally, such a high rate
As part of ongoing efforts to improve diversity in the wine industry, the Roots Fund, Wine Spectator and Zachys have partnered to create a new wine auction to raise money for the nonprofit organization’s initiatives to help members of Black, indigenous, Latinx and other underrepresented communities enter the wine industry. The auction, taking place April
Freshly revamped for a post-pandemic wine world, Premiere Napa Valley introduced a new auction partner and approach for 2022, raising $2.7 million for Napa Valley Vintners (NVV), the local trade group that promotes the wines, producers and appellations of the Napa region. The live auction on Feb. 27 brought in $2.1 million of the total.