JASON WILSON

Food & Travel

How Things Disappear: A Travel Writer’s Pilgrimage

On tough editorial calls, Rick Steves, and a small town in Andalusia, selected for Best American Food & Travel Writing 2024

Food & Travel

The Endless Siesta

In Spain, I took measure of what had changed in the country — and in myself — since the pandemic. From the Washington Post Magazine.

Food & Travel

The Sommeliers of Everything

In our era of hyper-credentialism, there’s a creeping wine-ification in all realms of taste, none without a certified expert. From Washington Post Mag

Food & Travel

On Travel Writing

In the absence of travel, what is a travel writer to do? From Guernica.

Wine

German Wine and The Sweet Hereafter

A personal journey across generations sharing a love for Germany’s wines.

Everyday Drinking

Godforsaken Grapes

Boozehound

Food & Travel

God and Pesto are Dead

The Genoese were mad at me for my Pesto Generator. But for some of us, cultural contamination is love. From Everyday Drinking

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Wine

Writing @ The New Wine Review

Click to check out my essays & features in my job as senior correspondent for NWR

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Food & Travel

The Best American Travel Writing

The 2020 edition of The Best American Travel Writing anthology is out now!

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Spirits, Wine

Writing @ Wine Enthusiast

Click to check out my essays & features in my job as contributing writer at Wine Enthusiast

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JASON WILSON is senior correspondent for The New Wine Review. He also writes Everyday Drinking, a newsletter about the world of wine & spirits (awarded Substack’s Food Intensive Fellowship).

He is the author of Godforsaken Grapes, which The New York Times named one of “The Best Wine Books of 2018” and Smithsonian named among the “Ten Best Food Books of 2018.”

He is also the author of Boozehound, which Anthony Bourdain called “superbly informative, entertaining, and yet deeply subversive.” Serious Eats called Boozehound one of the “10 Essential Books for Cocktail Lovers.”

His most recent book, The Cider Revival, was named one of “The Best Wine Books of 2019” The New York Times.

He was series editor of The Best American Travel Writing annual (Houghton Mifflin) for 22 years.

Wilson’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, The New Yorker, Wine Enthusiast, Whisky Advocate, Travel & Leisure, AFAR, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, Preservation, Town & Country, Salon, Outside, Boston Globe, Guernica and many other publications.

He wrote wine and spirits criticism for Vinous, where he covered Loire Valley, Cognac, and Armagnac, among other beats. He was the drinks columnist at the Washington Post for over six years, and three times his column won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists.

He has been a columnist for Wine Enthusiast, the beer columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, dining critic for the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Magazine, and the US columnist for Harpers Wine + Spirit.