• 2025: In Memoriam

    Before we turn the page on 2025, Wine Spectator's editors would like to remember the wine and restaurant industry pioneers, innovators and history makers we lost this year.This year we said goodbye to many American wine industry leaders, none more personal to us than longtime Wine Spectator senior editor James Laube. We also bid farewell to California wine legends Don Bryant, Sam Sebastiani and Carl Doumani, as well as chef John Ash, all of whom helped define the tastes of California wine countr
  • My Australian wine highlights of 2025

    Julie Sheppard After a packed trip Down Under at the end of 2024 – when I clocked up substantial air miles between Western and South Australia, plus a trip to Tasmania and visits in Victoria – 2025 was UK-based.
    But thanks to Zoom tastings, fantastic generic and merchant tastings in London with producers flying in – plus a revolving door of visiting winemakers at Decanter HQ, it almost felt like I never left.
    Choosing the best bits from a year of tasting is a tall order, but in

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