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October 2020 Tastings
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS
As we produced this issue during the COVID-19 shutdowns, we made some changes to our usual tastings protocol. Rather than tasting with panelists in our offices,
each of our editors tasted while sheltering in place, knowing only vintage, appellation and variety-and price, if the wine is $15 or less. They then sent second bottles of the
wines, bagged and numbered, on to a guest panelist, to discuss which wines they would recommend, and why. This process helped us sustain our goal: to work with outside
tasters to determine 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 recommend, on average, 35 to 45 percent of the wines we taste. Our ratings are determined and reviews written by the editor
overseeing that region's wines. That editor rates the wines based on the same limited information: only vintage, appellation and variety. Our goal with these 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.
YEAR'S BEST
CALIFORNIA CHARDONNAY, P. 41
WILLAMETTE CHARDONNAY, P. 53
ETNA WINES, P. 73
MENDOZA MALBECS, P. 83
FOCUS
BURGUNDY, P. 58
BEAUJOLAIS, P. 68
CAMPANIAN WHITES, P. 69
GIGONDAS & VACQUEYRAS, P. 71
MONTSANT & PRIORAT, P. 77
DISTRICTS OF VICTORIA, P. 79
COLCHAGUA CARMENERE, P. 82
COLHEITA & VINTAGE MADEIRA, P. 89
TASTED
RECOMMENDED
TOP WINES
BEST BUYS
379
105
76
226
171
61
55
93
121
55
49
52
56
21
9
11
284
49
41
57
68
42
31
17
180
31
33
28
41
25
15
15
116
15
24
24
23
22
11
14
21
8
6
4
6
3
9
2
210
137
163
95
151
87
18
16
1,722
1,006
764
190
NEW RELEASES
US, P. 90
IMPORTED, P. 104
TOTAL WINES
The Top Wine and Best Buy numbers are a subset of the
total number of 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.
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