Learning about wine can be an exciting but challenging journey. With thousands of wine varieties, regions, and winemaking techniques to discover, it&#39;s no wonder that many beginners feel overwhelmed (as do we) when starting their wine education. However, numerous resources are available to help people build their wine knowledge, and wine magazines are among the best tools for aspiring oenophiles (wine geeks).

Wine magazines offer a wealth of information that can guide and educate readers about the vast world of wine. Whether you are a beginner looking to dip your toe into the wine industry or a seasoned connoisseur seeking to expand your expertise, there is a magazine out there to suit your needs. Let&#39;s take a closer look at some of the top wine magazines and what they offer.

<a href="https://www.winespectator.com/">Wine Spectator</a> is a highly respected publication that has been at the forefront of the wine industry since its inception in 1976. This magazine aims to educate and entertain readers by covering wine regions, winemakers, and tasting notes. Wine Spectator is known for its in-depth articles, comprehensive wine ratings, and exclusive interviews with industry experts. While Wine Spectator can be enjoyed by wine enthusiasts of all levels, its content is especially appreciated by intermediate to advanced wine lovers looking for detailed insights and wine recommendations.

If you&#39;re just getting started in the world of wine, <a href="https://www.wineenthusiast.com/">Wine Enthusiast</a> is an excellent resource to begin your journey. This magazine caters to beginners and covers a wide range of topics, including wine basics, varietal profiles, and wine and food pairing suggestions. Wine Enthusiast also offers comprehensive buying guides, tasting notes, and expert reviews to help readers navigate their wine choices. With its approachable content and focus on education, Wine Enthusiast is a great magazine for beginners seeking to build a solid foundation in wine knowledge.

For those with a more adventurous palate and a desire to explore the global wine scene, <a href="https://www.decanter.com/">Decanter</a> is a must-read and our favorite periodical. This UK-based magazine provides a global perspective on wine, highlighting various wine regions, producers, and styles from around the world. Decanter offers in-depth features, wine travel guides, and expert opinions on emerging trends in the industry. With its emphasis on international wines and insider knowledge, Decanter appeals to wine enthusiasts who are looking to broaden their horizons and discover new and exciting wines.

If you&#39;re looking for a wine magazine that breaks away from traditional norms while still providing valuable content, <a href="https://noblerot.co.uk/shop/magazine">Noble Rot</a> is a fascinating choice. Noble Rot takes a more unconventional and playful approach, focusing not only on wine but also on the intersection of wine and culture. This magazine combines wine with art, music, and literature, resulting in a unique and entertaining reading experience. In addition to articles on wine regions and producers, Noble Rot features interviews with influential figures in the wine and culinary world, as well as thought-provoking essays that delve into the cultural significance of wine. With its creative and unconventional approach, Noble Rot appeals to wine lovers who appreciate a more eclectic and multidimensional perspective on wine.

No matter which wine magazine you choose, the key is to find a publication that aligns with your interests and level of wine knowledge. Explore different magazines and see which ones resonate with you the most. Remember, building wine knowledge is a journey, and these magazines are excellent resources to guide you along the way. Cheers to your wine education! Learning about wine can be a challenging but rewarding endeavor. Wine magazines such as Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, Decanter, and Noble Rot offer valuable content and resources to help individuals build their wine knowledge. From comprehensive wine ratings and in-depth articles to beginner-friendly guides and unconventional perspectives, these magazines cater to wine enthusiasts of various levels and interests. So, whether you&#39;re just starting your wine journey or seeking to expand your expertise, these magazines are readily available to provide you with the information and inspiration you need to explore and appreciate the wonderful world of wine.

Learning about wine can be an exciting but challenging journey. With thousands of wine varieties, regions, and winemaking techniques to discover, it's no wonder that many beginners feel overwhelmed (as do we) when starting their wine education. However, numerous resources are available to help people build their wine knowledge, and wine magazines are among the best tools for aspiring oenophiles (wine geeks).

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Joh. Jos. Prüm is a celebrated family-owned wine estate located in the heart of Mosel, a serene region in Germany, renowned for its outstanding Rieslings. The Prüm family's wine-growing heritage dates back to as early as the 17th century, further solidifying their stature as one of Mosel's most revered wines producers. The estate's rich history, coupled with a well-preserved passion for meticulous wine craftsmanship, allows them to consistently deliver the grandiosity expressed in each bottle of their world-renowned Rieslings.

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Robert Tas and Alexis Percival, certified sommelier and consulting wine director at Steak Frites, a new neighborhood classic French Bistro, located on the west side of Manhattan.

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RT: Hello and welcome to Cork rules. I&#39;m your host Robert Tas, along with Alexis Percival, certified sommelier, and consulting wine director at Steak Frites&nbsp;and new neighborhood classic French Bistro, located on the west side of Manhattan.

Hello, Alexis, thank you for being here on cork rules, a podcast where we help simplify and demystify the wine list at some of your favorite restaurants and wine bars. We talk with certified sommeliers, wine and food professionals who point out interesting bottles, classic food and wine pairings, hidden gems, value wines. And of course, those splurge wines that will take your experience over the top.

AP: Thank you, Robert. I&#39;m really excited to be here.

RT: Alexis, I&#39;m super excited to talk about steak fruits and their amazing wine lists. But before we jump in, let&#39;s talk a little bit about you. Can you give us a little background about yourself in the food business?

AP: Absolutely. Well, steak fried since we&#39;re talking about that today was opened at the beginning of December. So it&#39;s only been a few weeks, I came onto the project in mid-October to help prepare for the opening and in the longer term, as you said, as the consulting wine director there. I&#39;m also currently the partner and former beverage director of Ruffian wine bar, and kindred in the East Village, which unfortunately, Kindred just closed. In this past August, I&#39;d been in the biz for over 10 years now. And as a wine buyer for LIS for most of that time. And as you said, I&#39;m also a certified some amazing, amazing. Well, steak fruits has my name written all over it, I think it might be a picture next to my bio, because I love what it stands for. I love when I go to Paris, I might when I first stops is getting steak free, it&#39;s there. So your place has the same kind of neighborhood vibe to it in my mind, from its decor to the food, of course to the wine list.

RT: So can you tell us a little bit more about steak treats and a little bit of history and how it came about?

AP: Sure, the chef owner Adam shop has a long history with French bistro. And while he has other projects, I think that this one is really near and dear to his heart. It&#39;s located in Hell&#39;s Kitchen, just south of the Port Authority station. And that neighborhood kind of needs us some spots with Seoul, we think of that area as being very transient. But in fact, there&#39;s a ton of longtime residents who are looking for places to be regulars at basically the food is classic French bistro fare, but very well executed, I&#39;d say it punches above its weight. And I think the same with the sort of DIY decor and the super friendly service. It&#39;s not your cookie cutter corporate interpretation of a French bistro, it&#39;s you can tell that there&#39;s a heart and soul in it.

RT: I love it. I love it sounds amazing. All right, let&#39;s pivot and talk some wine, shall we?

AP: Absolutely. So along those same lines, I took that same inspiration of authenticity. When I was designing the list. Of course, a list is ongoing. It&#39;s never done as long as the restaurant is open, because things sell out, things get replaced. But for the initial list, which I&#39;d say we&#39;re still in now, I looked to bistro in France, which often have local wines that are understandable and value driven. So it&#39;s an all French list. And because of my background, it&#39;s natural leaning, but not funky offerings. For those of you who are less comfortable with quote unquote, natural wines, there&#39;s everything for you know, very accessible Bordeaux Sancerre and things like that, but things that are you know, sustainably made. And I&#39;d say as with any list, I try to answer questions with the selection. So basically, somebody comes and says, you know, I like a Napa cab and I say, Okay, try this. You know, we do all French I don&#39;t have Napa cab, but I always will have an answer for that. So it&#39;s not about pushing an agenda. It&#39;s about having a point of view while also satisfying the customers.

RT: I love it. I love the love the curation. I love your thought and I can feel your passion for it and what you put into it anything like there&#39;s a must try that if I was going there for the first time. What would you guide me to?

AP: Sure. Well, as I said, I tried to make it a really affordable and accessible list. This isn&#39;t meant to be a trophy list. It&#39;s meant to be something that&#39;s functional and actually sells. And so I say the vast majority of the list is under $150. And in there, I&#39;ve tried to pepper it with some affordable nerdy gems. So these would be wines that would be delicious to people who aren&#39;t as into wine, but fun finds for people in the know. For example, I have the Chateau Le Puy, &lsquo;&Eacute;milien&rsquo;, Bordeaux 2019 I have course one of the grandfathered wines of natural winemaking from Maison Loron, &lsquo;Beau!,&rsquo; Gamay, Beaujolais 2020&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; which is again may I also have some specifically food fun wines like that, Beck-Hartweg, Gew&uuml;rztraminer, Grand Cru Frankstein,&nbsp; Alsace 2018 and that&#39;s a star with our house-made country pate. I know Gilbert&#39;s Femeanor can be a little bit difficult for people to access but, but man when the pairing hits it hits, right. That sounds amazing and delicious.

RT: Now you got me excited. Well, I know you thought a lot about stuff that&#39;s even out off the beaten path something that&#39;s maybe nerdy and will push my palate anything come to mind there.

AP: If any of your listeners know me they&#39;ll know that certainly skin contact wise for something that we&#39;ve worked with extensively skin contact, also known as orange wines. We&#39;re not yet in the few weeks that stick bait has been open getting a ton of play yet but mark my words, it&#39;s definitely coming and I was also really thoughtful about the orange wines that I put on. I wanted people to have the experience of just wow, this is a really excellent wine not Oh, this is weird, and I&#39;ve never had anything like it. So I really sought out some of the wines that I&#39;ve worked with over the years that I think best exemplify that so we have the Sparr, &#39;Libert&eacute;&#39; Gew&uuml;rztraminer/Pinot Gris, Alsace 2019, and Domaine Yves Duport, &#39;C&eacute;line&#39;, Bugey, Savoie 2021 also have in that orange wine selection.

Which is a Shannon that is fermented and aged and amphora but these are clean drinking rich wine. So if you&#39;re thinking skin contact mints, funky kombucha. These will change your mind. Wow sound amazing sound amazing. Look forward to trying them myself. You&#39;ve got a really cool list very curated. What if I&#39;m celebrating something special? I want to take it up a notch. Oh, well, I made this might be a little overdone. But I really am very passionate about champagne and more. So I&#39;m really passionate about finding natural and sustainably made champagnes, because they are by nature, very manipulative wines. You can&#39;t make champagne without being very barely intervening with the process. So if you&#39;re going to treat yourself I&#39;m gonna say the Lelarge-Pugeot, &lsquo;Luna&nbsp; Volume 2, Extra-Brut 2015 it&#39;s a vintage champagne from 2015. Female winemaker, her dad, but they&#39;re very experimental. And they&#39;re really playing with alternative methods. So, in the case of that particular QA, they are inoculating with the most from the following vintage, which technically makes it non-callable vintage, it&#39;s 2015. But I think just the quality, the everything that&#39;s put into this wine, it&#39;s just outstanding, you would not not not be disappointed, but also just be blown away by it. So I&#39;ll just drink champagne with anything at anytime. So we don&#39;t need to have a special occasion.

RT: I like your thinking. I like your thinking I&#39;m with you. Champagne goes with everything. People are surprised they actually can have it with steak. They can have it with everything. Steak, fruit, baby. Exactly. Exactly. Those are amazing suggestions. Alexis, thank you so much. It&#39;s been a pleasure to chat with you about steak fruits and the fabulous list that you&#39;ve put together. I am super excited about our upcoming dinner and checking it out myself to our audience. Thank you all for joining us here on cork rules. If you would like us to review one of your favorite restaurants, please send us an email to info at cork rules.com or visit our website where we have that request form available. We&#39;re looking forward to being with you on another court rules episode soon. In the meantime, please check out our website for all our latest episodes of your favorite restaurant wine lists. And finally drink what you love and please make sure you drink responsibly. We look forward to being with you on another court rules episode soon. Cheers.

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