April 2014 - Wine & Spirits Magazine

April 2014

INSIDE THE ISSUE

April 2014

25th Anniversary Restaurant Poll

Editor’s Note
25 Years in Restaurants

Fined & Filtered
Stephanie Johnson on the latest East Coast attraction: West Coast wines

Spirits
Lou Bustamante
on new whiskeys and fruit liqeurs

Happenings

Pét-Nat
Pascaline Lepeltier
on the renaissance of an ancestral sparkler.

Tastings


Year’s Best

US Pinot Noir
White Burgundy
Loire
Austria
Tuscany Reds
Portugal Reds

Focus On

New Releases

US New Releases
International New Releases

Editorial Features


Master Sommeliers, Class of 1989

Master Sommeliers, Class of 1989

Lauren Mowery speaks with the three MS candidates who passed the test in 1989, when there were only 12 in the US.

Chianti in Fiasco

Chianti in Fiasco

Randall Grahm and Ceri Smith reconsider Chianti as they stock the list at Tosca in San Francisco.

Eat | Drink | New York

Eat | Drink | New York

The best of the new crop of bars & restaurants uptown, downtown and in Brooklyn, to satisfy both your hunger and thirst.

25th Annual Restaurant Poll

25th Annual Restaurant Poll

Cabernet’s hotter than ever before; merlot may be on the upswing. Our annual report on what’s trending in the nation’s top dining rooms.