Decanter DWWA 2020: Best Burgundy 2018 wines
Out of more than 400 Burgundy wines tasted and rated by our expert judges at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2020, discover the top-scoring white and red wines from the 2018 vintage.
While we await results from the Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 to gain further insights into Burgundy’s 2019 vintage (
DWWA 2021 entries are open now with judging set to take place in June), we look back at 2018 en primeur reports and subsequent DWWA 2020 results, where 22 of the competition’s top 24 Burgundy wines came from the outstanding 2018 vintage.
‘Historic is a word that has been widely employed to describe the Burgundy 2018 vintage. It was certainly a year of extreme weather – the hottest since 2003 – and of large volumes, particularly for white wines,’ said Tim Atkin MW in
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