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To fund this magazine and keep it advertising free, we have created three levels of subscription for our most avid readers and virtual-wine class learners. The initial round of funding from these efforts has gone toward paying contributors and a travel budget for reporting purposes.
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Exclusive Online Wine Classes
Live Online Wine Classes
From September through May, we host regular live online wine classes, exclusively for subscribers. Join Editor-in-Chief Kevin Day (an Italian and French Wine Scholar™ with Highest Honors) as he tours the vineyards and regions of Europe with an approachable demeanor and a highly visual presentation. Guests are responsible for buying their own wines, but Kevin provides a Study Guide that serves as an indispensable shopping resource for that topic. Previous sessions have delved into Beaujolais, Nebbiolo, Sicily, white wines of the Loire and Alsace.
Mini Clinics
Join us for short-and-sweet seminars focused on a series of pointed wine topics, all with a consumer-friendly angle to help you have a better success rate shopping and enjoying wine.
Exclusive Access to Wine Reviews
The Essential Winemakers of Italy & France
Our highly curated list of the most compelling and consistent producers in the two greatest wine nations on earth. Regularly updated, and thoroughly comprehensive, these pages offer subscribers detailed info on winemaking practices, maps, tasting notes, photo galleries and why these producers matter so much to us. And we're not afraid to remove wineries if their performance lags or if someone eclipses them.
Wines to Admire
A collection of short-and-sweet wine reviews focused on only the most exceptional wines we come across. Some legends, some surprises. Roughly 50 of these are presented each year.
Nebbiolo Fan Club
Our quarterly column on the most interesting red wine grape in Italy, featuring three compelling wines and what unites them.
Tasting Reports
These periodic producer-, vintage- and/or regional-focused reports focus on the relevance of each wine within their respective context. No boring charts and word-salad descriptors. Just answers to why you should care.
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