Wine can be confusing, especially when it comes to the laws and classifications around it. In the United States, they’re relatively straightforward — we have the American Viticultural Area (AVA) ...

Over the last couple of months, I have had many readers wanting another column deciphering the confusing classification of wines in the world. The 1855 Classification of red wines of the Gironde ...

Germany’s updated wine law—which is mandatory from the 2026 vintage—introduces PDOs, PGIs, and stricter regional control, but understanding the new hierarchy won’t necessarily be ...

BORDEAUX (Reuters Life!) - Bitter tears are falling in some glasses of ruby red Saint-Emilion wines after a Bordeaux court confirmed an earlier ruling throwing out the latest classification of one of ...

The Crus Bourgeois wine classification of Bordeaux in France—originally initiated in 1932—was relaunched in February this year on the date of 02/20/2020. It covers only red wines produced in eight ...

Gran Selezione doesn’t make wine shopping any easier. Several years ago, Gran Selezione was yet another identifier added to the Byzantine lingua vina of Tuscany. It takes some work to sort out the ...

Spain has the largest area of vineyards out of all the world’s wine-producing countries, but as their vines are planted further apart than in France or Italy, these two nations make more wine. In 2003 ...

It's impossible to talk about German wine without talking about riesling, and it's impossible to talk about riesling without talking about sweetness. By now, you likely know that I'm a big fan of ...

The broadening of the fine wine market beyond Bordeaux to not only Burgundy in France, but also Italy, Spain, the U.S., and beyond, is evident in Liv-ex’s latest “classification,” the London-based ...

Rather than classifying "a" specific wine as my favorite, I have chosen to recall several as "memorable," wine expert Allen ...