Posted by Wine Spectator: January 5, 2018
What does 2018 have in store for drinks in pop culture? We predict wine movie sequels, a subway perk to ease your miserable commute, a surprise Nobel Prize winner and more.
Hard to believe it, but it’s been one year—as opposed to, say, 10—since Unfiltered made our bold wine predictions for 2017 last January. At the time, we imagined the excitement in the wine world would unfold with TV shows like the Walking Dead and Orange Is the New Black spinning off their own labels, sommeliers getting caught up in the Pokémon Go (or rather PokéSomm Go) craze, and John Oliver putting American wine in his comedic crosshairs. It would’ve been a nice year, what we had planned out.
Still, 2017 wasn’t all woe in wine—we did, after all, see our favorite shows catch the wine bug, from Master of None to the Super Bowl and even, yes, the Walking Dead. So once again we peer into the notoriously cloudy Unfiltered crystal ball to divine what 2018 will bring. Join us on our journey, won’t you, and get the Unfiltered newsletter delivered straight to your inbox on alternating Fridays—all the latest scoop on drinks in sports, movies, music, politics, art, crime and more!
Trend Alert: Boat Christening Is the New Sabering, Somms Declare
Remember sabering, the act of sliding a blade along the seam of a sparkling-wine bottle in the hopes of popping the cork, leaving a totally-safe jagged glass rim to serve your wine from? It was all the (sab)rage, but no more: In 2018, sabering will be as passé as rosé.
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