10+ Best Articles on Wine
The most useful articles on wine from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Wine Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on wine by Refind users in 2023 so far.
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Expensive wine is for suckers
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How to Pour Wine Without Spilling a Drop
Pouring like a sommelier is an art and crucial skill for anyone who loves wine. Learn how to pour wine without spilling in this guide.
How To Taste Wine Properly: Step-By-Step Wine Tasting Guide
Learn about the practical applications of how to taste wine properly and the benefits of improving your wine tasting abilities step by step. Honing your senses will help make you smarter, become a…
How to choose a bottle of wine
Bite into a strawberry, talk to a wine geek, pore over a map: forget wine snobbery and develop your own distinctive taste
How to Taste Wine and Seem Like You Know What You’re Doing
Wine is for everyone, even if you can't pronounce the names.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on wine—all under 10 minutes.
Chilli peppers, coffee, wine: how the climate crisis is causing food shortages
Blistering heat, stronger storms, droughts, floods and fires are putting food production at risk
The Wine Flaw of Our Times
It was 2015 and I was tasting wine at a store that no longer exists, staring in puzzlement at a glass of something cloudy and orangish from Chile. It was my first time tasting natural wine’s bacterial…
Coffee bad, red wine good? Top food myths busted
We’re being bombarded with conflicting advice on what we should and shouldn’t put into our bodies. Finally, here are the definitive answers, according to the experts
These Snobby Wine Terms Actually Make Tasting More Fun
Use the descriptors of the poets and sommeliers to make wine night memorable.
The power of music: How Brahms might make your wine taste better
Can the power of music enhance your experience of a wine? A study from Susan Lin MW, head of wine expertise for Belmont Wine Exchange, shows it does
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on wine.
Gone Bad, Come to Life
When jaguars gnaw the quinine from the bark of a red cinchona tree...
«To be vital just is to be mortal — that’s an iron law, and fermentation illustrates it by displaying both of these faces of earthly being, perfectly, at once»
Climate change is altering the chemistry of wine
Warming, wildfires and unpredictable weather threaten to disrupt the delicate processes that underlie treasured wines. Researchers and producers are innovating to keep ahead.
25 Absolute Best Wineries In Napa Valley
Now is a great time to visit Napa Valley, to help vineyards rebuild and understand why America's most popular wine region has rightfully earned that title.
Your Next Glass of Wine Might Be a Fake—and You'll Love It
Replica Wine makes cheaper copies of your favorite wine at a discount by analyzing its chemistry. Often, even professional critics can't tell the difference. Is this heresy or just good business?
How Natural Wine Became a Symbol of Virtuous Consumption
The mainstreaming of natural wines has brought niche winemakers capital and celebrity, as well as questions about their personalities and politics.
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Wine, including:
Aeon+Psyche
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Psyche is our sister magazine focused on the human condition. Visit http://aeon.co and http://psyche.co for more.
Decanter
Passionate about wine since 1975 - exclusive wine news, recommendations, videos, events and home of the Decanter World Wine Awards 👉@DecanterAwards
The Pudding
The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. Email us: sup@pudding.cool Support us: http://patreon.com/thepudding
VinePair
Drinking is culture. 🍷🍺🍸🥂🍹🍻
Punch
Drinks, always full.
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