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12 California wines that define 2020
These wines, which make up a case, are not only delicious they tell the story of what happened with wine in this tumultuous year
By Esther Mobley |
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 9:23 AM
2020 has been an earth-shattering year for the American wine world. And it would have been even without the coronavirus.
Major fires plowed through some of California’s most prestigious terroir, destroying wineries and threatening an unprecedented volume of wine grapes with the insidious malady of smoke taint. The nationwide reckoning with racial injustice forced the wine world to confront its inequities in a new, stark way and then allegations of sexual assault within the country’s most elite sommelier organization forced a similar reexamination of its deeply ingrained sexism.