Wine & Spirits

Five Wines and a Vodka You Need to Get Your Hands on Now

Among 2,300 exhibitors from 40 countries at VinExpo 2017, these bottles took our critic's breath away.

Photographer: Joanna Margan

Bursts of fireworks illuminated the night sky at Château Mouton Rothschild. Speakers in the vineyard boomed out arias from Mozart’s The Magic Flute as attendees streamed into a large white tent for dinner.

That was just one of the parties kicking off VinExpo 2017, the world’s largest wine and spirits trade fair, which was held last week at a giant exhibition space on a man-made lake north of the city of Bordeaux.