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The Best New Wines Of 2024

Maxim Feed: Chris Carpenter’s high elevation mountain Cabernets. (Lokoya) We recently rounded up our favorite new American whiskeys and winter-ready microbrews, but no end-of-year celebration...

Wine Of The Week: Storrs Christie Vineyard Chardonnay 

Maxim Feed: Storrs’ Santa Cruz Mountains wines. (Photo: Richard Morley) The Santa Cruz Mountains are a magical place, floating up above the Northern California coast....

This SoCal Four Seasons Offers 100+ Wellness Treatments At Luxury Hotel Brand’s Biggest Spa

Maxim Feed: (Four Seasons Westlake Village) Sure, some of the best wellness retreats send you out into the unknown—to desert foothills to rest up and...

Wine Of The Week: Casa Ferreirinha Quinta da Leda

Maxim Feed: (Photo Composite: Kate Dingwall) As a tourist, the Douro Valley in Northern Portugal is an entrancing place to visit. It’s dramatic and breathtaking,...

The Best Wines For Thanksgiving Weekend, According to Sommeliers

Maxim Feed: (Photo: Getty Images) Chances are, you’re juggling a lot this Thanksgiving—baking turkeys, making sides, and setting tables. Or maybe you’re not, and Thanksgiving...

The Best Wines For Thanksgiving Weekend, According to Sommeliers

Maxim Feed: (Photo: Getty Images) Chances are, you’re juggling a lot this Thanksgiving—baking turkeys, making sides, and setting tables. Or maybe you’re not, and Thanksgiving...

Wine Of The Week: Jean-Baptise Jessiaume Santenay 

Maxim Feed: Jean-Baptiste, of Jean-Baptiste Jessiaume (Credit: JBJ) Bourgogne, or Burgundy, has been making exceptional wines for a very long time—Romans introduced viticulture to the...

Wine Of The Week: Seven Apart Expedition 2022

Maxim Feed: It would be almost impossible for Morgan Maurèze, the winemaker at Napa Valley’s Seven Apart, to make bad wine. His father and mother...

Wine Of The Week: Louis Latour Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru

Maxim Feed: (Photo: Louis Latour) The wines of Bourgogne—also known as Burgundy—have been around for a long time. The Romans ran through here, and left...

Wine Of The Week: Elena Walch ‘Beyond The Clouds’ Chardonnay

Maxim Feed: (Photo: Kate Dingwall( Chardonnay is grown everywhere. It thrives in Burgundy and commands three-figures in California. The best producers in Champagne play with...

Wine of the Week: Oleandri Stagecoach Cabernet Franc 2020

Maxim Feed: (Oleandri’s Napa Valley Cabernet Franc. Credit: Oleandri) Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the darlings of the wine world. It commands astronomical...

Wine Of The Week: Royal Tokaji Essencia

Maxim Feed: Hungary’s Royal Tokaji Essencia comes in a hand-blown gilded decanter. What if I told you an order of Essencia, a grail-worthy wine by...