Pinot Noir

The Sideways Curse Is Over: Wine Drinkers Are Remembering Merlot

Merlot was once the fan-favourite red grape and wine. Then came 2004 hit movie Sideways, in which Miles, the pinot-noir-loving main character, trashes the...

Ambitious Winemakers, Climate Change Makes For Good, Cheap Pinot

Great pinot noirs, as a friend once put it, have a near-sexual allure. The first taste can turn you into a bottle stalker, which is why the world’s&n...

Terrible Labels, Great Wine: Six Superb Bottles Hurt by Bad Art

You're standing in a wine shop, facing long shelves displaying hundreds of wines and trying to decide what to buy. Do you grab the bottle whose hip, clever...

To Save Chilean Wine, Producers Head South

Faced with increasingly inhospitable growing conditions, the Chilean wine industry is moving south and experimenting with new vines. Deep in Chile'...

Nine Best Burgundy Wines Under €100

A week ago, I elbowed my way through crowded New York tastings of 2015 Burgundies, touted as the best in decades. The city is a hotbed of Burgundy lover...

The Top Wines of 2016, Tasted by Critic Elin McCoy

To come up with this list of my most memorable wines, I scrolled through the tasting notes of nearly 4,000 wines from around the globe that I sampled in 20...

This Is the Year for New World Wines. Here's What to Buy

In every wine country, vintners anxiously scan the skies all year, hoping weather challenges will still let them make great, or at least good, wine. So...

German Pinot Noir Is the Buzzy Alternative to Pricey Burgundy

It’s called spätburgunder in Germany. But just think of it as pinot noir with an umlaut. If you’re picturing Germany as a place where o...