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Jul 6, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
The New New World Chardonnay - Wine & Spirits Magazine Catena Alta Chardonnay is a selection from the Adrianna Vineyard (above) as well as rows at Domingo. Laura Catena and Alejandro Vigil have built an impressive collection of chardonnays from Catena’s high Andean vineyards. When they hit, they combine sunny-ripe citrus notes with the energy infusion of cool fruit grown at altitude.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene |John Szabo MS |Corey Warren
Silver Kofkeche $35 Kofkeche 2021 Malleco ChardonnayMalleco is on the way south from Concepción toward the Lake District, deep enough into the volcanic south that this wine "screams volcanics first, chardonnay second," noted Mary Gorman MW.
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May 10, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
A New Direction for Wine & Spirits - Wine & Spirits Magazine Remember magazines? They populated train station newsstands, coffee tables, waiting rooms at doctor’s offices, bathrooms at home. Filled with provocative art and various takes on journalism, they filled moments in time now mostly dedicated to smart phones. Back in 1984, while working with special interest magazines, I came across Winestate’s Wine & Spirits Buying Guide—surprised that a wine magazine could exist.
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May 3, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
Ed McCarthy: A Remembrance(1936-2024) - Wine & Spirits Magazine Wine writers are connectors. They tie producers to wine drinkers, sharing information from both sides. Ed McCarthy’s career as a wine writer connected millions of wine drinkers to a better understand of what growers and producers are doing. By extending the tech-based Dummies series to wine, McCarthy and his wife, Mary Ewing-Mulligan, MW, launched Wine for Dummies in 1995, now in its seventh edition.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
Portugal’s Momentum - Wine & Spirits Magazine “One of my biggest loves is for Portuguese whites,” Nicolas Berggren told us, citing the most exciting bottle he opened last year at The Purple Pig in Chicago. “You’re talking about value, and you’re talking about the transparency of low-intervention, regenerative wine-making. The one that comes to mind is arinto, mostly, the Entre Pedras Efusivo from Pico in the Azores. It’s a small-production wine.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
Complex, Brooding Pinot Noir - Wine & Spirits Magazine Raschen Ridge on the Hirsch Estate. (Photo courtesy of the winery)The Hirsch family credits the fault line running through their estate for the jumble of geology, a complex puzzle they have worked to solve by dividing their 72 acres of vines into 67 farming blocks. San Andreas is their estate blend, an overview that Jasmine Hirsch blended from 34 of those blocks in 2021.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
Bubbles are Up - Wine & Spirits Magazine A Moment for Champagne: Sommeliers reported that Champagne and Burgundy are the two regions they focus on most for their wine lists. (Photo: Lucy Hewett)“What gives me the most satisfaction, to be honest, is any bottle of sparkling wine that gets opened on any table, no matter the price point.” For Jackie Pirolo, at Macchialina in Miami Beach, sparkling wines pair well with the menu and with the local climate.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
Cedric Nicaise of NYC’s The Noortwyck on Long Lists, the New Spain, and NY’s cocktail Renaissance - Wine & Spirits Magazine After running several restaurants in Ithaca, New York, Cedric Nicaise was looking for a new direction. It was 2008 and the economy was tanking. He needed a marketable skill, so, he started taking classes at the American Sommelier Association. That’s when he got his first sommelier gig at NYC’s Auriole.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
93 J. Bouchon $20 2022 Valle del Maule Block Series SemillonThis layered and complex semillon grows at Bouchon’s Batuco Vineyard, 18 miles from the coast, where the 80-year-old vines are dry farmed in granitic soils. The wine’s savor has the char of a grilled pepper over an open flame, the dark and mysterious undertones of a mole, the brighter fruit notes of peach and pear. Pour a glass to enter the ancient plant kingdom of the Andes.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
wineandspiritsmagazine.com | Joshua Greene
Southern Chile - Wine & Spirits Magazine Tastings posted on March 27, 2024 Stephanie JohnsonItalian Wine CriticStephanie joined Wine & Spirits Magazine as Tasting Director in 2013 and became Italian Wine Editor in 2016. She spends a significant amount of time each year visiting Italy’s wine regions, tasting with producers and researching articles about their practices.
