Tag: winemakers
What Are the Trending Wine Destinations for 2026? The Hottest Winemakers and Regions to Visit
VinePair's "15 Winemakers to Watch" highlights several must-visit producers creating the future of wine. In California's Santa Cruz Mountains, ambitious yo...
What Wine Regions Are Best for Beginners? Your Complete Guide to Accessible Wine Destinations
Choosing the right wine region as a beginner sets the foundation for lifelong wine appreciation. Below, we break down the key criteria for selecting beginn...
How New Generation Winemakers Are Revolutionizing Wine and Food Pairing
New generation winemakers break traditional pairing rules, focus on wine structure over color, and create versatile wines for modern global dining experiences.
Explore Sonoita, Arizona’s Completely Underrated Wine Region
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine Travel · Arizona · 8 min read Arizona wine is no longer a surprise to the people paying attention — it’s…
Introducing the World’s Most Sought-After Champagne
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine · Champagne · 7 min read In two small walled plots in the grand cru village of Aÿ, in the heart…
What Is Wine Oxidation? And How to Stop It
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine · 6 min read Open a bottle of white wine, leave it on the counter overnight, and taste it in the…
Near Sedona’s famed red rocks, a wine trail in Arizona
Most Sedona visitors leave without knowing that 30 minutes south, along a winding creek road through oak-studded high desert, is one of the most genuinely…
The Napa Valley Nobody Talks About
Napa Valley produces roughly 4% of California’s wine grapes and generates approximately 17% of the state’s wine revenue — and the reason for that disproportionate…
The Mondavi Family: How Robert’s Grandchildren Are Making the Best Wine Yet
No family has shaped American wine more profoundly than the Mondavis — and no family has suffered more publicly for it. Cesare Mondavi arrived from…
Italian Biodynamic Wine: What the Best Producers Are Actually Doing
Biodynamic wine sits at the intersection of serious agriculture and genuine mysticism — which is either its most compelling feature or its most off-putting one,…
Gamay: The Most Underrated Grape in the World
In July 1395, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, issued an edict banishing Gamay from the Burgundy wine region entirely, calling it the “disloyal Gaamez”…
Three Ways Champagne Is Beating Its Climate-Change Problem
Champagne’s climate-change problem is simple to state and hard to solve: the region’s identity is built on cool temperatures, high acidity, and slow ripening. Rising…
Long Island Wine in 2026: How Cabernet Franc Finally Put the North Fork on the Map
In 2016, wine writer Lenn Thompson posed two questions about Long Island wine that he said might not be answered for decades: would the North…
Château de Beaucastel: Why This Is the Wine That Ends Drops of God
In the Japanese manga series Drops of God — and its 2023 Netflix adaptation — a young man must identify twelve legendary wines to claim…