Opening a Bottle's Wines to Admire wine reviews with Lushy the Fox. Illustration: ©Chris Gregori.

Wines to Admire

This section emphasizes the unique qualities and stories behind hundreds of individual wines worth seeking out. There are no tasting notes full of “medium-plus this and that” or hyper-specific tobacco references. Nope. Instead, each wine is framed simply: what a beginner might enjoy and what a wine obsessive will appreciate. If I can't satisfy both audiences, the wine doesn’t make the cut on Opening a Bottle.

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