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AUGUST 2019
TA ST I N G S

YEAR'S BEST
RECOMMENDED

TASTED

TOP WINES

BEST BUYS

SUMMER SPARKLERS
PAGE 40

569

225

92

33

US RIESLINGS
PAGE 49

144

63

30

14

VINHOS VERDES
PAGE 52

99

35

17

10

GALICIAN WINES
PAGE 54

167

71

35

20

PROVENCE ROSÉS
PAGE 58

141

62

25

9

US ROSÉS
PAGE 61

331

93

29

17

GREEK WINES
PAGE 68

299

131

66

34

CHILE COSTA
PAGE 64

108

34

19

11

BAJA CALIFORNIA
PAGE 66

113

35

13

8

IMPORTED WINES
PAGE 74

322

128

46

29

US WINES
PAGE 80

264

123

76

16

2,557

1,000

448

201

FOCUS

NEW RELEASES

TOTAL
WINES

The Top Wine and Best Buy numbers are a subset of the total number of recommended wines.

SOME MEMBERS OF
OUR TASTING PANELS
FOR THIS ISSUE

LA: Daniel Viet, Margot * Joben Herrera, Pizzeria
Mozza * Eduardo Bolaños, Chi Spacca * Nathaniel
Muñoz, Bar Avalon * Nancie Hemminger, Uncorked
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel, Hotel Bel-Air

OUR
RECOMMENDATIONS
Wine & Spirits recommendations start
with a panel of our peers. We present
all wines to screening panels composed
of retailers, sommeliers and other winebuying professionals. We present flights of
like wines in numbered glasses, revealing
only vintage, appellation and variety-and
price, if the wine is $15 or less. We then ask
our panelists if they would recommend the
wine, and why. Our goal is to draw on a
broad universe of tasters to help us decide
which wines are worth recommending, and
to avoid the prejudices any one critic might
exercise, consciously or not, against certain
styles or types.
Our screening panels, run by a W&S
editor, recommend, on average, 20
to 30 percent of the wines we taste.
We then present all recommended
wines to the editor charged with
reviewing that region's wines. That
editor rates the wines based on the same
limited information: only vintage, appellation and variety. Our goal with those ratings
is for each reviewer to provide you with a
consistent point of view.
In the pages that follow, we present
all the wines our editors have scored 90
points or better, as well as all the Best
Buys-wines we have recommended that
cost less than the median price for their
respective categories. Subscribers can
access our online database, including
all wines tasted and reviews of all recommended wines.
The label reproductions that appear
in our tasting reports are a form of
advertising. After we complete our tastings and record the results, our marketing
team offers wineries the opportunity to
draw attention to their reviews with label
reproductions. There is no obligation to
advertise, and our scores and reviews are
in no way affected by a winery's decision
regarding advertising. Neither does advertising influence our selection of the wines
we taste; our tastings are open to all. All
bottle reproductions in the magazine
are purely editorial art.

NYC: Daniel Majid, Hogsalt Hospitality * Susannah Smith,
Consultant * Scott Carney, MS * Tina Vaughn, The Simone *
Dimitrios Manousakis, Milos Wine Bar * Ignacio Monclus,
Camperdown Elm * Aaron Zebrook, The Bowery Group * André
Compeyre, Aldo Sohm Wine Bar

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