wine
Alcoholic beverage made from fermented grape juice.
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Food and Wine
Food and wine go well together. The right food enhances the flavors in the wine and wine is the perfect complement for food.
Wine
Thousands of grape varieties give an incredible varied array of wines. Grapes transfer to the wine the same characteristics of the soil and climate they absorbed while on the vine.
Wine at Oktoberfest
One tent at Oktoberfest stops serving beer at nine and pours wine instead. The 140-year story behind it, and why Bavaria has a wine region you've probably never tried.
The vintage that arrived too soon
Champagne picked its earliest harvest ever in 2026. Here is what record heat is doing to wine, from Burgundy to Napa, and what it means for your glass.
The Roman "sugar" that was slowly poisoning its drinkers
The Romans sweetened their sour wine with a dark grape syrup boiled in lead pots, and gave
themselves a slow poison that tasted sweet. The strange story of sapa and sugar of lead.
Sweet wine
Sweet wine, from delicate Moscato to lush Sauternes: how it’s made, the main styles, what each tastes like, and how to serve and pair it.
Red wine
Red wine, from light and silky to big and bold: how it’s made, the main styles, the role of tannin, and how to serve and pair it.
White wine
White wine, from crisp to creamy: how it’s made, the main styles, what each tastes like, and how to serve and pair it.
Orange wine
Orange wine is not made from oranges, it’s white wine made like a red. Here’s how skin-contact wine is made, what it tastes like, and what to drink it with.
Rosé wine
Rosé is the most misunderstood wine on the shelf — and quietly one of the most useful. It comes in every shade from the palest blush to deep coral, it flatters almost any meal, and yet many people still wave it away as sweet or somehow not serious. None of that holds up. Rosé is not a single grape or a sweet style; it is a way of making wine from red grapes, and most of the good stuff is bone-dry. Here is how it is made, the styles worth knowing, and how to choose, serve and pair it.