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.