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Dec 10, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Susannah Skiver Barton |Sarah Parker Jang |Jason Wilson
If you want a bottle of 30-year-old Balvenie, it’ll cost you well over $3,000. Macallan of the same age goes for $5,000 or more, and Dalmore is about the same. Increase the age by five or 10 or 20 years and the prices rise to astronomical heights. Fifty-year-old Macallan costs around $35,000 at release, and only gets more expensive on the secondary market. These prices are out of reach for all but the super-wealthy.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Sarah Parker Jang |Jason Wilson |Sheila Marikar
Sweet wines—or dessert wines, or whatever you want to call wines with serious residual sugar—are a little bit like panettone, the classic Italian sweet bread/fruitcake that makes its appearance this time of the year. Panettone is great. We like panettone. We really do. But we really only want to eat panettone roughly once a year. If we’re being honest, we feel similarly about sweet wines.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Sarah Parker Jang |JR Thomason |Susannah Skiver Barton
Here’s what’s happening on the wine internet this week:🇫🇷 Five newcomers to know in Bordeaux. 🧀 What to pair with cheese. 🤩 The wines that get Quince somm Adam Chhibbane really excited. 🇳🇿 Wine-Searcher on this year’s best wines from New Zealand. 🇬🇪 Georgia winemakers face crossroads: Russia or the U.S.? 🏥 Hospices de Beaune auction raises nearly $15 million. 🏆 One bright spot in the wine business: Burgundy. 😟 It’s not just tariffs: other proposed policies also worry the U.S. wine industry.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Sarah Parker Jang |JR Thomason |Susannah Skiver Barton |Sheila Marikar
Since 2003, Lindsay and Michael Tusk have built a small yet formidable dining empire in the upward-trending Jackson Square neighborhood of San Francisco. Quince, their flagship restaurant, is its Rome: a three-Michelin-starred restaurant (one of only three in the city) and one of The New York Times’ 50 best in the U.S., serving a seasonal tasting menu featuring ingredients sourced from Northern California purveyors.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Jason Wilson |Jon Fine |Sarah Parker Jang
While Grüner Veltliner has experienced an up-and-down popularity with American wine drinkers, Austrian red wines have struggled to find love, and remain relatively obscure. Certainly, you’ll see ageworthy Blaufränkisch on more contemporary wine lists, and a good wine bar may offer an entry-level Austrian red by the glass. But there’s rarely much buzz, and little understanding or interest outside the wine-geek bubble.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Jon Fine |Sarah Parker Jang |Jason Wilson |Susannah Skiver Barton
Here’s what’s happening on the wine internet this week:🦃 26 wines for Thanksgiving dinner. 🧀 But first: what to drink before the meal. 🙊 And what to drink afterward. 🥪 And, hell, what to drink the next day. 🛒 Quiet changes at much-beloved K&L. (Paywall – SF Chron)☕ One way to make it as a top-tier somm: start in a diner. 🌤️ Amid plummeting wine sales, where are the bright spots? Margaret River, Prosecco, and Oregon Chards, to name a few.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Jon Fine |Sarah Parker Jang |Jason Wilson |Susannah Skiver Barton
The real glory happens after Thanksgiving. More specifically, it happens the next day. It’s the real day off from work. There’s no meal to get on the table; the relatives that always say the wrong thing every. freaking. year. have blessedly taken their leave. Your corpus is weary: headache, dyspepsia. And yet you want more of what you stuffed yourself with last night, and not just because the idea of actually cooking a meal seems totally crazypants.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Susannah Skiver Barton |Jon Fine |Sarah Parker Jang
After the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries, green bean casserole, and Aunt Margie’s weird but mandatory Jell-O salad are consumed and the gravy-streaked plates are cleared, it’s time for the best moment of Thanksgiving Day: dessert. And dessert, on this day, means pie. And nothing goes better with pie than whiskey. Because it’s Thanksgiving, that most American of holidays, we’re inclined to pour only American whiskey.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Susannah Skiver Barton |Jon Fine |Sarah Parker Jang
We’re in the thick of it now. New whiskies are coming out left and right in the leadup to the holidays. It’s the time of year when hotly anticipated limited editions, like the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection (and its cousin, Pappy Van Winkle), “hit shelves”—or, more likely, arrive at retail stores to be raffled off or distributed via lottery.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
newwinereview.com | Jon Fine |Sarah Parker Jang
Might as well start by admitting it: pairing wines for Thanksgiving, especially if you’re talking about wines for a traditional Thanksgiving spread, is kind of a nightmare. There is the turkey, which almost always veers toward bland, no matter what you do to it. There is the cranberry sauce, which has enough sugar and acidity to murder almost any wine. There is the sweet potato casserole, which—I’m sorry, I just can’t with the sweet potato casserole. Make mashed potatoes or anything else instead.
