Slow Wine USA Guide 2024

Slow Wine US is a new and revolutionary guide to the wines of California, Oregon, New York and Washington. Thanks to the help of a handful of expert contributors, we've selected the best wineries from each state and reviewed their most outstanding bottles.

The idea behind Slow Wine is simple: it acknowledges the unique stories of people and vineyards, of grape varieties and landscapes, and of their wines. The awareness that wine is more than just liquid in a glass helps wine lovers make better, more conscious choices and enhances the very enjoyment of these products.

Since its beginnings in Italy thirteen years ago, Slow Wine has combined its tasting sessions with equally important moments of exchange and debate with producers. The direct contact to winegrowers and winemakers allows for a genuine, authentic and always up-to-date report on what's happening in America's vineyards and cellars.

The contents

Each winery receives a review divided in three sections: the first one dedicated to the people who live and work at the winery, the second to the vineyards and the way they're farmed, the third to the finest wines currently available on the market.

The very best wines are awarded the Top Wine accolade. Among these we have the Slow Wines - which beyond their outstanding sensory quality are of particular interest for their sense of place, environmental sustainability or historical value - and the Everyday Wines, representing excellent value at prices within 30$.

The most interesting wineries on the other hand are awarded the Snail, for the way they interpret Slow Food values (sensory perceptions, territory, environment, identity) while offering good value for money; the Bottle, to wineries whose wines are of outstanding sensory quality throughout the range; the Coin to those estates offering excellent value for money.

As global wine editor for sister publications the SOMM Journal and The Tasting Panel magazines, Deborah Parker Wong, DipWSET has been writing about the beverage alcohol industry for these and other outlets since 2004. In 2020 she was appointed National Editor, USA for the Slow Wine guide. She teaches as an associate instructor in the Wine Studies departments at Santa Rosa Junior College and Cabrillo College and owns a Wine & Spirit Education Trust school offering Level 2 and Level 3 certifications. In addition to writing and speaking about wine, she is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Viticulture and Enology at California State University, Fresno. Her motto is: To learn, read. To know, write. To master, teach. A partial archive of her published work can be found at www.deborahparkerwong.com.Twitter - @parkerwongInstagram - #deborahparkerwongFacebook - www.facebook.com/deborah.parker.wongLinkedin - https: //www.linkedin.com/in/deborahparkerwong/

Pam Strayer is a journalist who specialized in health, science and the environment for 30+ years, before expanding into wine journalism as well in 2010. In wine, her focus is organic and biodynamic producers as well as general eco-wine topics. She has studied wine at U.C. Berkeley (where she earned a certificate), U.C. Davis, and the North American Sommelier Association. The author of 5 published wine apps, she was the conference program director for the International Biodynamic Wine Conference in San Francisco held in 2018 and more recently consulted to Vivino on organic and biodynamic wines. Her writings appear in Pix, Santé, Daily Seven Fifty and Wine Business and more. She has given guest lectures at Santa Rosa Community College, and for community groups in Sonoma and Napa, as well as for Women of the Vine & Spirits, the OIV Wine Marketing Program at U.C. Davis and Sonoma State's Wine Business Institute. She is a guest at international conferences on wine and the environment. Her articles are available at https: //winecountrygeographic.com.Twitter: @winecountrygeoFacebook: https: //www.facebook.com/pam.strayer.3/Linkedin: https: //linkedin.com/in/strayer