Senior Editor Stuart Pigott met up in London with winemaker Kelby Russell from the Finger Lakes region of New York to taste the wines of the inaugural vintage from the Apollo’s Praise winery Russell started with his wife, Julia Hoyle, in 2023. What did he find? Check out all our tasting notes from Finger Lakes, Tuscany, Australia’s Yarra Valley and more in our latest Weekly Tasting Report!

For a small vineyard region that comprises just 2,500 acres of grapes, Anderson Valley punches far above its weight, with elegant, cool-climate wines its calling cards.

The 2022 California reds are coming out in full force now, mostly calming concerns that it would be a cooked or otherwise lesser year because of the historic, extreme heat event around harvest time in most regions.

For Executive Editor Jim Gordon, traipsing through the vineyards of Santa Barbara County was an eye-opening reminder of just how diverse this wine region in Southern California really is, and how much it continues to evolve.

We rated 531 wines from six countries over the past week, with Senior Editor Stuart Pigott leading the charge in Germany’s Mosel Valley, where he tasted the 2023 vintage from some of the region’s most famous producers, and some of those who bottle late.