Wine Spectator: The 2025 New York Wine Experience
October 20, 2025Read the headlines lately, and you’ll think no one drinks wine anymore. Well, no one bothered to tell the hundreds of people lined up early outside the doors of the New York Wine Experience on the evening of Oct. 16. Nor did they tell the more than 265 vintners inside two floors of space at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square, carefully uncorking the wines they had brought to share with those waiting guests.
Wine sales are down in the U.S., but wine passion remains high, and the Critic’s Choice Grand Tasting was the perfect exhibit of that. It was the opening night of the 44th New York Wine Experience, Wine Spectator’s annual gathering of winemakers from across the globe, along with industry members, sommeliers, chefs and, most importantly, the consumers who love wine.
Once the ballroom doors opened, those wine drinkers were greeted by more than 265 wines, all rated 90 points or higher by Wine Spectator editors. More than 90 of those wines had received 95 points or higher, making this an epic adventure of wine. Wine Spectator has more.
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