Guides

Practical guides to buying wine in the US: what a price means, which shops can ship to you, and how to compare bottles honestly.

None of these is written yet. They are listed because they are what we intend to publish, and because an empty shelf is better than one filled with text that says nothing. Each will be written by someone who knows the subject, or not at all.

• How we price a wine planned, not yet written
  Which shops we count, what we do with a case price, and why a figure has a date.
• Buying Bordeaux in the US planned, not yet written
  What a vintage costs across American shops, and where the gaps usually are.
• Bottle sizes, and why they matter to a price planned, not yet written
  A magnum is not two bottles' worth of money. What to compare with what.
• Which states a shop can ship to planned, not yet written
  Direct shipping is state by state. What that means when the cheapest shop is far away.

In the meantime: our own reports on US wine retail prices, written from our data rather than our opinions.