Some people look forward to getting Time, Newsweek or U.S. News in the mail. Others look forward to Cosmopolitan. Still others like People, or Sports Illustrated or Money. Me, I look forward to the arrival of Wine Spectator.Wine Spectator isn’t necessarily the best written or the most comprehensive of the wine magazines. With its oversize pages, heavy paper and glossy pictures of people holding aloft expensive wine glasses framed with beautiful vines and fantastic wineries in the background, it can even be a little pretentious. But it is well written, its writers are knowledgeable and it is reader-friendly to experts and novices. Every issue has articles about new wine releases that are good and what regions are producing the best (or best value) wines at any given time.
Although I read every issue eagerly, the issue I look forward to every year is the December 31 edition. This issue includes a list of the year’s top 100 as selected by the magazine’s editors.
