Note: In nearly every issue, QRW covers major wine stories in California, France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Portugal, along with detailed tasting notes. QRW is the only wine magazine that does not rate wines numerically. We do not believe that wine can be rated with numerical specificity. Please further note: editorial is subject to change without notice.

Two Champagne Profiles: Mumm and Champagne Taittinger, Eleanor and Ray Heald
Syrah Symposium at Gallo, Eleanor and Ray Heald
Rhone’s Richness: Perrin & Fils Wines
California: Rubissow Wines
Wining and Dining: Carnet d’Adresses of Paris: new, affordable, and delicious restaurants
Charles Krug, Napa First Winery, Yvonne Horn
California’s Santa Lucia wine region, Tom Hyland
The Hot Varietal: The Top 10 California Petite Sirahs, R.P. Hinkle
Viader Wines, Yvonne Horn
Ysios, Avant-Garde winery in Rioja, Richard Elia
QRW Contributors offer their best wine experiences in 2008
Ten Great 2005 Bordeaux Values, Randy Sheahan
An Homage to XO Cognacs, QRW Tasting Team

We are also offering our first Dark Chocolate blind tasting. And, of course, we continue our international Wining and Dining column by Edward and Mireille Guiliano (she of French Women Don’t Get Fat fame. Finally, we offer another article on New York state wines Bedell Winery. Writers include a list of well-knowns: Serena Sutcliffe, M.W., Tom Maresca, Beverley Blanning, M.W., Randy Sheahan, Mireille, Rosemary George, Larry Walker, Richard Hinkle, Gerald Boyd, Eleanor and Ray Heald, among others. A pull-out section is included, detailing the nationally famous Boston Wine Harbor Festival of Wine-Dinners, The Boston Wine Expo, and the internationally famous Anthony Spinazzola Foundation Festival. Thirty stories: 205,000 copies.

Some features:

• Three California Profiles: Silverado, Kuleto, and Freemark Abbeys, Eleanor and Ray Heald
• 25th annual Best of the Best in California, Part I. Tasting results of our blind tasting for Sparkling Wine, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Noir
• QRW’s Annual Italian Tasting: Barbaresco, Barolo, and Super Tuscans (blind tastings)
• Wining & Dining in Los Angeles
• The Other Bordeaux: blind tasting of affordable Red Bordeaux in the $25 to $60 category
• The 5th Annual Dark (and Dark Milk) Chocolate Tasting
• QRW’s Annual Port Tasting: Vintage 2000 and 2005
• Viader: Yvonne Horn
• Italy’s Feudi wines, Tom Hyland
• Our three regular columns will appear: All Things Grape; Dernier Cri; and Wine Scene
• Fleming-Jenkins Wines: Olympic gold skating medalist Peggy Fleming and her husband make 2,000 cases in Los Gatos, Yvonne Horn
• Tormaresca: Antinori’s Puglia winery
• Report on the New Releases from Sagrantino, Tom Maresca
• Ch. Ste Michelle’s Riesling, Yvonne Horn
• Barnett Vineyards, Gerald Boyd
• Sandemann Port: A Century of Tawny Port, Richard Elia
• Profile of Jean-Michel Alquier, Rosemary George, M.W.

As always, each issue cover the major wine regions, and Chile, Argentina, and Australia will receive coverage in this issue.

Bonus Circulation: QRW is found at every major wine show, festival, and auction in the country, like shows at Naples, Monterey, Orange Country, Boston Harbor Wine Festival, and many others. The magazine is also found in many room and suites of Relais and Chateaux, The Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Preferred Hotels and Resorts, Mohegan Sun, and 88 other small, upscale independent hotels and resorts across the country and in Canada.

Bonus Circulation: Name the major wine auction and/or wine and food event, and QRW is there: Naples Wine Festival, Atlanta Wine Extravaganza, Detroit Center for Creative Studies, Boston’s WGBH/PBS Rare & Fine Wine Auction, along with Aspen, The Spinazzolla Wining and Dining Festival, Hudson Valley Wine Festival, and Boston Wine Expo These, along with our “in room” hotel circulation at some Ritz-Carltons, Four Seasons, Preferred Hotels and Resorts, Relais & Châteaux, Mohegan Sun, and 75 other upscale and smart independent hotel properties across the country, account for an extra 40,000 distributed magazines. QRW will be distributed at all the major wine shows, expos, and festivals: Napa Wine Auction, Sonoma Wine Auction, Santa Fe Wine & Food Festival, Jackson Hole Wine Auction, San Diego Wine & Food Festival, and Whitefish, MT Festival.

After the Winter Holiday issue, Summer is surely one of the most popular issues. The reason is California. Here, we publish our 25th ANNUAL BEST OF THE BEST IN CALIFORNIA, THE RED WINE ISSUE, continuing the editorial we started in the previous issue. These tastings focus on the great California reds: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Meritage/Red Blends. The tastings are all blind, and by invitation only. It takes QRW tasters six months to complete, tasting more than 975 wines.

In addition, we have many major California writers offering profiles of winemakers and

• Three California Profiles: Franciscan, Gainey, and Edna Valley Vineyards, Eleanor and Ray Heald
• Chile's Best Red Wines, Tom Hyland
• Rochiloi Wines
• Paul Hobbs Wines
• The Smaller Napa Valley Wineries to Watch, Eleanor and Ray Heald
• The wines of Riccardo Cotarella, Thomas Maresca
• California: Franciscan Oakville Estate
• Gems of Spain: Priorat and Penedes
• As always, we continue our California “Must Buys” section, the best wines $12 and under
• Dry Creek Vineyards, Yvonne Horn
• New Zealand's Villa Maria
• Italy's Alegrini wines
• The Allure of Mature Amarone: Aged wine v. fruit-led wine, Tom Maresca
• Peggy Fleming Wines, Tom Maresca
• Bell Vineyards, Gerald Boyd
• New Zealand’s Sauvignon Blanc by Stoneleigh, Richard Elia

Most of our frequent contributing writers appear in this issue: Clive Coates M.W., Rosemary George, M.W., Eleanor and Ray Heald, Richard Paul Hinkle, Gerald Boyd, Larry Walker, Edward and Mireille Guiliano, and Randy Sheahan. Thirty stories. 220,000 copies printed.

Bonus Circulation: In addition to our upscale hotel placements mentioned above, QRW will be available at the Naples, Napa, and Sonoma wine auctions, the Monterey Wine Festival, Santa Fe Wine and Chili event, the Hawaiian Wine Symposium, Washington DC Wine Festival, New York State Wine Show, and seven other major wine festivals, distributing more than 20,000 extra copies.

If Autumn comes, can Bordeaux and Burgundy, be far behind? How well have the 2005 Bordeaux progresses after two years in bottle? We find out as 25 of three major Growths are blind tasted. How are the 2006 “futures” doing? We have a feature on them as well with a Blind Tasting of the Major Growths by David Peppercorn, Master of Wine. A major tasting of Great Red and White Burgundies appears, as Clive Coates, Master of Wines, offers his annual overview. In short, the Best Bordeaux and Burgundy are evaluated.

• Absinthe, "which maketh the heart grow fonder," Larry Walker
• QRW staff provide editorial about the best sparkling wines from California
• Edna Valley
• Freemark Abbey
• Great Value Wines Riesling
• Benevenuto Brunello event in Montalcino: New Releases and New Perspectives, Tom Maresca

Nor do we ignore the wines of New Zealand and Australia, with profiles (yet to be named) of winemakers and wineries making the most buzz. Our regular Wining and Dining column by the well known duo, Edward and Mireille Guiliano (who have been writing for QRW for 18 years), will take readers to notable culinary spots, detailing what’s hot and what’s not. Thirty articles appear, with abundant wine notes, along with our Annual Best Buys. 200,000 copies.

Bonus Circulation: Along with our regular distribution at fine hotels mentioned above, QRW will circulate abundant copies at the 18th Annual Boston Harbor Hotel Wine Festival, The Sonoma Harvest event, the Washington, D.C, Wine Expo, Public Television Wine Auctions, The Providence Festival of The Vine, among others. 30 articles; 210,000 copies.