Wine Spectator’s Grand Tour of 234 Wines Roars Into the Windy City

Close to 1,000 avid wine lovers swirled, sniffed and tasted wines from among the 234 wineries pouring at Wine Spectator’s first stop of the 2025 Grand Tour, held in Chicago at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk on April 26. The Windy City was the first of three stops this year—the tour heads to Washington D.C. on May 2 and Las Vegas on May 10, with each evening offering the chance to taste wines rated 90 points or higher from dozens of regions and grape varieties.Several wineries w