What you’ll find in Restaurant Wine

Practical ideas, top wines and wines values, emerging trends

The wine journal for restaurants

Published since 1988 by wine taster extraordinaire Ronn Wiegand

For 30 years Restaurant Wine has been offering exclusive wine recommendations, restaurant industry profiles, wine training tips, wine service suggestions, and wine trend commentary for cutting-edge restaurateurs, distributors, importers and exporters, wineries, wine shops and discriminating wine drinkers.

As the world’s leading wine newsletter for the restaurant and hospitality industry, Restaurant Wine reaches businesses and individuals throughout North America as well as countries in South America, Asia, Europe and Africa. It is only available electronically, by PDF.

Restaurant Wine also provides wine consulting services to the wine trade and to consumers on all aspects of wine. Restaurant Wine is published and operated by Ronn Wiegand, the first person in the world (in 1991) to hold both the Master of Wine and Master Sommelier titles.

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  • I was browsing through Restaurant Wine the other day and felt the urge to let you know how I appreciate your clear, organized style and direct advice. ... I imagine that many list-computers must copy them out verbatim! What a pity we don't have a comparable magazine in England.
    Hugh Johnson
    - Wine Expert - Essex, England
  • I just wanted to tell you have much I enjoyed your most recent issue. You taught and reminded me of something very important with your varietal vigilante story. I’m guilty of anti-Merlot snobbery myself, and I’m certain that I pass it along to the staff. Thanks for the reminder! I also enjoyed the “What is a Great Wine List” story. Keep it up!
    Diana Van Buren
    - Partner & General Manager, Bar Six
  • It has been my privilege to recommend you to our distributor network, to individual restaurant accounts who need a third part affirmation of their selections (one that doesn’t accept advertising AND whose primary focus is value rather than status) and to friends who know I can’t get to all the good wines, sensibly priced, that you can.
    Jim McCullough
    - Sales Manager, Gundlach Bundschu Winery
  • Restaurant Wine is essential reading for marketing and public relations executives who plan to create and support on-premise promotional programs for wine. It tells us what’s happening and who the innovators are.
    Paige M. Poulos
    - President, Paige Poulos Communications
  • Take my word for it, Restaurant Wine is indispensable! Every issue addresses the issues we face in buying and selling wine on-premise. Bottom line results? You betcha! Can you afford not to be tapped in?
    Michael Garey
    - Cafe L'Europe - Sarasota, Florida
  • Restaurant Wine is extremely impressive in its clarity, breadth of restaurant wine-related issues and information. As a wine, I would describe it as concentrated, complex, subtle, with length and finesse, and intriguing enough to want another glass (issue)! I would give it 5 stars.
    Zelma Long
    - President, Simi Winery
  • The 'right on' marketing information we find in Restaurant Wine helps us help our restaurant accounts sell St. Supery. Ronn Wiegand's insight into the needs of the restaurateur, articles on what's working and previews of upcoming trends, lets us provide our accounts with so much more than just wine.
    Sandy Flanders
    - St. Supery Winery Napa Valley, California
  • Restaurant Wine should be required reading in every restaurant with a wine program that aspires to being taken seriously. For that matter, in any restaurant that aspires to greater profitability… I’d be willing to bet that implementation of any of the ideas in a typical issue would pay for the subscription price in added profits within a week.
    Todd Helmus
    - Europvin Iberia
  • Dining Group South recommends that all general managers read Restaurant Wine. It is an excellent barometer of present and future trends in wine marketing. The various wine programs featured show marketing concepts in action, which is a great way to learn what works–without the potential pain of failure.
    Blake Hallman
    - Operations Manager, Dining Group South
  • For any wine buyer interested in running a successful wine program, or one who just wants to drink a great wine, Restaurant Wine is a MUST READ! Intelligently written editorials, plus Ronn Wiegand’s wine reviews that spring from his infallible palate make me virtually devour every new issue.
    Manfred Krankl
    - Partner & General Manager, Campanile Restaurant & La Brea Bakery
  • Who’s selling wine? Where? How? It’s the marketing ideas that make Restaurant Wine so valuable to me. The concepts here can be as easily applied to my business as to a restaurant. I eagerly await the wine recommendations in Restaurant Wine. They’re consistent, concise, and more congruent with my taste than the ratings of any other review.
    Wayne Belding
    - Master Sommelier & Owner, The Boulder Wine Merchant
  • Bravo! Bravo! And Amen May others copy your excellent and very consistent methods of evaluating wines.
    Jan Wells
    - Director of Public Relations, Cannon Wines Limited
  • Restaurant Wine is informative, helpful and a damn good read for suppliers, too.
    David Brown
    - VP, Director of Marketing/Advertising, Freixenet USA, Inc.
  • Your articles on how to sell wines on-premise are helpful tools we as a distributor can use to advise our clients on different ways to promote and increase their wine sales.
    Nick di Guilio
    - Treasurer, Abbruzzi Distributors
  • Excellent publication. Fair, concise, informative and thought provoking.
    Mike Lambert
    - VP & General Manager, King Estate
  • The wine reviews are excellent. Everything else is better. The restaurant profiles are particularly useful, in that they provide concrete examples of what works. Restaurant Wine is the single best way we have of getting a picture of what’s happening across the nation [in restaurants].
    Chris Howell
    - General Manager, Cain Cellars