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Weird or innovative?

This new rose Champagne was made to be served on ice and sipped on an L.A. patio You are not supposed to put ice in your Champagne. It dilutes the wine. At least that’s the thinking among most wine experts. But that rule doesn’t apply to the winemakers at Möet Chandon, who are hoping you’ll sip their new Möet Ice Imperial Rose on ice, on a 95-degree sunlit rooftop deck in Los A...

This is monstrous!

Synthetic wine made without grapes claims to mimic fine vintages The world's first fruit-free

Are rare and allocated wines at NY restaurants really worth all the fuss?

The Allocation Conundrum: More Buyers Asking for Less Wine The world of wine allocations has gone through a lot of changes recently. Here's why some of the best bottles won't be on the list.

Be on the lookout for some really good 2015 Viognier that tastes like Luminescence, but with a different label.

€40,000 of grapes stolen Maison Etienne Guigal - Decanter Maison Etienne Guigal has had €40,000 of grapes stolen, which were reserved for Luminescence, a rarely produced cuvée of Condrieu.

This is really terrible.

Valley Fire incinerates Lake County's Shed Horn Cellars The Valley Fire, which reached 61,000 acres in Napa and Lake counties on Monday morning, has reportedly destroyed Shed Horn Cellars, a winery in Middletown in southern Lake County. No one was injur...

Well, that's one way to handle the situation.

Woman downs whole bottle of cognac at Beijing airport security control Woman drank contents of bottle after being told she could not carry it in her hand luggage, only to be prevented from flying because she was too drunk

Crazyman or genius prophet?

Randall Grahm Dreams of California Wine Spectator

We do like fruity wines.

What Does the Meiomi Sale Tell Us About the American Way of Wine? Wine Spectator columnist Matt Kramer says the sale of Pinot Noir Brand Meiomi can tell us quite a bit about American wine tastes.

Know these vineyards!

The Five California Vineyards You Need to Know Anyone looking for wines that are consistently strong should seek out bottles with labels bearing these names, says Lettie Teague.

Georgian wine en vogue.

How Vladimir Putin created America’s new hot wine A thorny international skirmish between Russia and its former Soviet states has been a boon for Georgian wine-makers.