Read Wine Spectator’s 17-step guide to how winemakers produce the world’s best-known bubbly, from the vineyard to the bottle ...

Vintage charts summarize the quality and character of wines from a particular region for each individual vintage—the year in which the grapes were grown and harvested. Based on ratings of a wide range ...

“The key constraint for Dom Pérignon is the vintage, since each champagne is produced exclusively from the grape harvest of a single year. Dom Pérignon’s role is thus to seek constant ...