The world of wine is experiencing a quiet revolution, spurred by a changing climate and a fresh generation of vignerons and winemakers with innovative ideas about wine and its future.
Chase Purdy is a long-time food reporter and author. He started the Grape Rush newsletter to bring this evolving story into sharper focus, providing coverage of the business, politics, and culture of next-generation winemakers and their centuries-old craft.

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Chase Purdy is a New York-based writer, and the editor of Grape Rush.
He’s written about the business and technology of food for Quartz, and the politics of food for POLITICO. His stories have appeared in The New York Times and in newspapers across the United States — collected from courtrooms, crime scenes, farms, laboratories, and the halls of government. He is the author of BILLION DOLLAR BURGER, a book documenting the edible space race to get lab-grown, cell-cultured meat to market. It was published in 2020 by Penguin Random House.





