Get a sneak peek at Wine Spectator's latest wine tastings with new scores and tasting notes for recently reviewed Golden ...

Grocery and household retailer Aldi has introduced a new line of discount wines — the California Heritage Collection — to compete with Trader Joe's Charles Shaw wine, aka Two Buck Chuck.

California producers are making sparkling wines that are better than ever. For them, it’s not about trying to create something that tastes like Champagne. It’s about highlighting the best of ...

Until recently, neither could California sparkling wines compete, by and large, except as poor stand-ins for Champagne. But no longer. In the last decade a new breed of California sparkling wine ...

NDA wines had grown to represent about 14% of Wine Access’ total revenue, according to Fisch. That percentage dipped after the 2020 wildfires, which tanked supply after many California wineries ...

The Temecula Valley is one of the most interesting and innovative AVAs. Here’ a brief overview of the region and tasting ...

Here’s a selection of 20 world class Pinot Noir wines from Oregon and California, each awarded gold medals by Decanter and ...

Whether bottled on its own or in a blend, it produces deeply colored, tannic wines that can withstand particularly long aging. It reigns in California, where it's responsible for everything from ...

The resulting product tasted more like the imported European wines. Not at first. In the 1850s and ‘60s, most of the wine produced in California was being consumed on the West Coast; only a ...