These food-and-wine newcomers, including fried-chicken haven COQODAQ and Mexican hot spot Chateau ZZ’s, are first-time Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winners
Get scores and tasting notes for top California Chardonnay wines from across Napa, Sonoma, Carneros, Santa Barbara and beyond.
The vintage proves its mettle in a retrospective tasting of the landmark year. Get senior editor James Molesworth's scores and tasting notes for wines from Dominus, Bond, Harlan, Mayacamas, Joseph Phelps, Opus One and more.
A tough growing season capped by wildfires leaves consumers with fewer choices, but select vintners bottled good wines in Napa, Sonoma and the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Get scores for nearly 500 Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc red wines from California's 2020, 2019 and 2018 vintages reviewed in Wine Spectator blind tastings, including top bottlings and good values from Napa, Sonoma, Paso Robles and …
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After a coronavirus-required hiatus of the event in 2020, wine lovers gathered again in 2021 for the 40th Anniversary of the New York Wine Experience, enjoying three days of top-flight tastings and in- depth seminars led by all-star …
Our annual roundup of the most exciting wines of the year includes profiles of the Top 100 red, white, rosé and sparkling picks from across the globe.
At the 2021 New York Wine Experience, Dominus Estate and Ulysses owner Christian Moueix presented his Ulysses Napa Valley 2015 (93 points, $219) in a showcase of elite California Cabernets, where he was joined by Abreu winemaker Brad Grimes, Accendo owner Bart Araujo and Graeme MacDonald of MacDonald Vineyards.
Event guests had the chance to compare three of the most exciting reds released that year: two Cabernet-based wines, from Bordeaux and California, and a Sangiovese blend from Tuscany.
The 40th Wine Experience kicks off with a blockbuster tasting of 210 wines from the world's greatest vintners.
Bruce and Heather Phillips' little-known Oakville vineyard provides grapes to Napa's elite, and their own estate Cabernet is an authoritative expression of the site. Wine Spectator's James Molesworth tastes the 2018 vintage.
Nudging 2016 aside, the 2018 vintage is Napa Valley's best in more than 20 years, counting dozens of classic-scoring releases and hundreds more top wines—rich, dark and detailed Cabernet Sauvignons that clearly transmit their terroirs.
Profiles of four recently started, small Napa producers whose Cabernets are already coming on strong
Get scores for nearly 800 California Cabernets reviewed in blind tastings over the past year, with notable Napa Cab bottlings from the 2018 vintage.
With a new owner and winemaker, one of Napa’s first single-vineyard Cabernet bottlings makes a comeback.
For Nigel and Shae Kinsman, the road to Cabernet success started in Australia and passed through some of Napa's premier properties.
Winemaker Meghan Zobeck has her hands full with this historic Howell Mountain Cabernet vineyard as the property recovers from the 2020 wildfires. Wine Spectator senior editor James Molesworth reports on her progress.
Napa Valley veteran Bart Araujo and family are building an admirable track record with a trio of young wine labels. Wine Spectator senior editor James Molesworth tastest six Cabernets from the 2018 vintage.
The 2017 California Cabernet vintage is a mixed bag as vintners faced both heat waves and wildfires, but there are many successes, with the best wines showing ripe up-front fruit and fresh acidity. Late releases from 2016 are also worth …
