Why The Chronicle is not naming a Winemaker of the Year in 2020
An explainer for our year-end wine coverage, in this week s Drinking with Esther newsletter
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Because nothing about 2020 is normal, we decided to change up our year-end wine coverage.
December is usually when we roll out our Winemaker of the Year and Winemakers to Watch packages traditions that preceded my arrival at The Chronicle and that I happily inherited from Jon Bonné, the paper’s previous wine writer. But this December we’re not doing either.
Instead, this week we published a different sort of year-capping project: 12 wines that define 2020. Allow me to explain why.
the bikers there that day were nant bystanders. are you going to put us in jail? everyone s going to jail. the way they handled it with the mass incarceration of people with million dollar bonds, flies in the face of justice and flies in the face of fairness. it s ridiculous. reporter: after it was all over, the scene was chaos, dozens of bikers had run inside the restaurant to the hide in bathrooms and the twin peaks kitchen. police s.w.a.t. teams move in to round up the crowd. they re escorted out with hands up, weapons litter the crime scene. knives, brass knuckles and more than 150 firearms everywhere, some even hiden in toilets. it s been more than five months since the twin peaks brawl. all of the bikers are out of jail, out on bonn. they were all charged with engaging in organized criminal activity. no one has been charged with murder yet. it s still not clear who cleared