Our recently published Washington 2025 Tasting Report highlights the state’s stunning vineyards as well as its ability to produce premium wines from a wide array of varieties, but it also excels at delivering exceptional wines at bargain prices.

Although Cantina Terlano’s Terlaner I could easily be called the best pinot bianco in the world. such a statement oversimplifies this exceptional Alto Adige wine, which recently took center stage at Enrico Barolini al Mudec, Milan’s three-Michelin-starred restaurant, in a six-vintage vertical tasting.

Gianlorenzo and Giovanni Neri of Casanova di Neri represent the third generation of the their family winery, and while respecting tradition and a shared desire to create the elegant, ageable wines for which the estate is known, they are forging new pathways on their own.

The wine regions in California that produce elegant, pure-tasting, acid-driven pinot noirs and chardonnays are few and far between, but the Sonoma Coast may be the best place for sleek but concentrated Burgundian style wines.

The last vintages in Beaujolais ranged from the cool and wet 2021 and 2024 to the very hot and dry 2020 and 2022, with 2019 and 2023 between those extremes. The climatic differences clearly marked the wines but didn’t tell the full story in this beautiful hill country.