2025: In Memoriam

Before we turn the page on 2025, Wine Spectator's editors would like to remember the wine and restaurant industry pioneers, innovators and history makers we lost this year.This year we said goodbye to many American wine industry leaders, none more personal to us than longtime Wine Spectator senior editor James Laube. We also bid farewell to California wine legends Don Bryant, Sam Sebastiani and Carl Doumani, as well as chef John Ash, all of whom helped define the tastes of California wine countr