Wine & Spirits is an American

United States

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 wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 magazine

Magazine

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. With offices in New York

New York City

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 and San Francisco

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

, the magazine publishes eight issues annually.

In addition to publisher and editor-in-chief Joshua Greene

Joshua Greene (wine)

Joshua Greene is an American wine critic, and the publisher and editor-in-chief of Wine & Spirits.Having graduated from Princeton University in 1981, Greene pursued a career in the magazine publication industry...

, among the contributors are Tara Q. Thomas, Patrick Comiskey

Patrick Comiskey

Patrick Comiskey is an American wine critic and a senior correspondent for Wine & Spirits, chief critic for non-California domestic wines, and writes about wines of California, Oregon and Washington...

, Patricio Tapia, Peter Liem

Peter Liem

Peter Liem is an American wine critic, a senior correspondent for Wine & Spirits, and since 2009 the author and publisher of the online subscription guide to wines and producers of Champagne, ChampagneGuide.net...

, with additional contributing writers such as David Schildknecht

David Schildknecht

David Schildknecht is an American wine critic, a full time member of The Wine Advocate tasting team since 2006, and contributor to recent editions of Robert Parker's Wine Buyer’s Guide. An authority on the wine of Germany and Austria, he also considers the Loire Valley a specialty, a wine region he...

, Fiona Morrison MW

Master of Wine

Master of Wine is a qualification issued by The Institute of Masters of Wine in the United Kingdom...

, Bill St. John and Victor de la Serna.

While the magazine has been rating wine

Wine rating

A wine rating is a score assigned by one or more wine critics to a wine tasted as a summary of that critic's evaluation of that wine. A wine rating is therefore a subjective quality score, typically of a numerical nature, given to a specific bottle of wine...

on a 100 point scale since 1994, Joshua Greene is an outspoken critic of the system.