  Courtesy of the Associazione Culturale Buchette del Vino When Italy had to close its doors, a window opened. The curious buchette del vino—"wine holes"—carved out of Renaissance facades around Tuscany once enabled merchants to sell their wine directly to passersby. This year, buchetta enthusiasts discovered the portals could also provide a safe, socially distant way to serve wine during an epidemic outbreak—and that Florentines, somehow, knew it 400 years ago.
 Courtesy of Cité du Vin To host a tasting soiree for children, you need soft drinks, sugar, salt and water. Through field trips and kid's passes, a château and the Cité du Vin museum are showing the future sommeliers of France that wine can be cool. "It is a joy to see the curious looks on their faces of discovering something that has always surrounded them, but they didn't really know much about," said the château owner. But how do you teach tasting to third-graders?
SPONSORED CONTENT  WATCH this tasting of high-altitude Malbec as Wine Spectator Grand Award–winning sommeliers taste Zuccardi Malbecs from some of the world's highest-elevation vineyards. With guest winemaker, Sebastian Zuccardi.
 11th Street Studio / Courtesy of Cass Winery With its setting among the vines, Geneseo Inn at Cass Winery makes it hard to feel boxed in. From California to Spain, wineries are turning all kinds of surprising things into stylish guest rooms, and decorating them with salvaged materials from barrel cellars and farms. One person's wine trash is another's wine treasure: Check out some of the bold designs vintners and architects have come up with.
 Courtesy of The Wine MVP Though his business is new, Will Blackmon's coverage of the wine zone is looking impressive. We've had a packed roster of star guests on our Instagram Live series, Straight Talk with Wine Spectator, with plenty still to come! The virtual chats with chefs, winemakers, somms and more are airing every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. Throughout the month of August, we're spotlighting Black voices in wine and dining. Yesterday, former NFL player and Wine MVP owner Will Blackmon took the field, and we've got journalist and educator Julia Coney coming up on Aug. 18. Watch past convos, see the full lineup and tune in!
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