The World’s Best Wines of 2025

After spending the past month surveying the world of wine and the critics who serve it, Wine Searcher has landed on its best wines of the year. Wine Searcher Editor Don Cavanaugh reviews the top ten wines of 2025 and notices a changing of the guard at the top end of the wine world. —WINE-SEARCHER, Don Cavenaugh

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Wine News

📺Millennials Take the Lead as America’s Top Wine Drinkers – This Week Uncorked Episode 76

—CORK & JOURNEY (video)

Climate change has cut Portuguese wine yields by 14 percent

—MACAO NEWS, Anna O’Connor

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Ideas & Opinions

What Does Your “Guilty Pleasure” Wine Say About Taste?

—EXPLORING THE PHILOSOPHY OF FOOD & WINE

What to Serve on New Year's Eve

—THE CORRUPT WINE WRITER, Joel Stein

Your 2026 Wine Challenge

—CELLAR NOTES

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Wine Education

Look for These Two Words on a California Wine Label for Superb Bottles

FOOD & WINE, Ray Isle

What Your Wine Cellar Hides

—POOR GIRL EATS WELL, Kimberly A. Morales

Somm Drinks a 1970s Gewürztraminer. Could it actually still be good??

—SOMM TV (video)

From $3 Economy Wine To $1,200 First Class Champagne—What Airlines Actually Pay Per Bottle

—VIEW FROM THE WING, Gary Leff

Tasting time at Armenia’s interactive Wine History Museum

—ARMENIAN WEEKLY, Kushane Chobanyan

This Centuries-old Tuscan Village Is Home to the Best Wine Resort in Italy—With Idyllic Vineyards, Wine-based Spa Treatments, and Olive Groves

—TRAVEL & LEISURE, Laura Itzkowitz

All Things Bubbly For New Years

—WONDERFUL WORLD OF WINE (podcast)

My Most Memorable Cabernet Francs of 2025

—BEING FRANC

The Future of Champagne May Be Written in the Soil

—FOOD & WINE, Tom Hyland

Unearthing the foundations of Margaret River’s fine-wine reputation

—CLUB OENOLOGIQUE, Andrew Caillard MW

My 13 Most Memorable Wines of 2025

—CORK REPORT

Without these walls: Deluxe clos Champagne

—WORLD OF FINE WINE, Simon Field MW

2023 Domaine Carneros “The Famous Gate” Pinot Noir

—WINE CHARACTERS

The 9 Breakout Wines of 2025

—SEVENFIFTY DAILY, Caitlin A. Miller

The Best High-End Champagne for When You Really Want to Treat Yourself

—FOOD & WINE, Ray Isle

The 20 Most Popular Cocktail Recipes of 2025

—IMBIBE

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