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807
Tastings
Spring 2023
Our
Recommendations
618
W
ine & Spirits RECOMMENdations
start with a panel
of our peers-once again
in our offi ces, with all tasters
and staff fully vaccinated against
COVID-19. We present all wines
to screening panels composed of
retailers, sommeliers and other
wine-buying professionals. We
present fl ights of like wines in
numbered glasses, revealing only
vintage, appellation and variety-and
price, if the wine is $20
or less. We then ask our panelists
if they would recommend the
wine, and why. Our goal is to work
with a broad universe of tasters to
determine which wines are worth
recom mending, 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; since
our team is tasting mostly limited,
pre-determined categories during
the pandemic, the per centages
tend to be higher . 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 the
top performers within each category,
including 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. ●
320
US
New
Releases
PAGE
122
Blaufränkisch
PAGE 98
Burgundy
PAGE 94
Reds
from
Rioja
P. 117
234
217
205
181
203
177
Chianti
Classico
P. 100
118
108
78
52
83
76
55
48
33
22
11
16
9
9
9
47
57
46
27
12
76
46
11
57
43
9
112
90
147
126
41
16
The label reproductions that
appear in our tasting reports are a
form of advertising. Aſt er we complete
our tastings and record the
results, our marketing team off ers
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 aff ected by a
winery's decision regarding advertising.
Neither does advertising infl uence
our selection of the wines we
taste; our tastings are open to all. All
bottle reproductions in the magazine
are purely editorial art.
WINE & SPIR IT S
SPR ING 2023
7 5
South
Africa
P. 111
Year's Best
South Australia
Shiraz
& Mediterranean
Varieties
P. 114
Year's
Best
Northern
Portugal
P. 120
294
Year's
Best US
Rhône
Varieties
P. 103
TOTAL WINES
2967
Tasted
1360
Recommended
918
Top Wines
191
Best Buys
Imported
New
Releases
PAGE 126
THE TOP WINE AND BEST BUY
NUMBERS ARE A SUBSET OF
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RECOMMENDED
WINES.
Year's
Best US
Pinot Noir
PAGE 77
TASTING PANEL
Some of this
issue's tasters
NY TASTERS
Crystl Horton, ANGEL'S SHARE WINES
Tina Vaughn, THE SIMONE
Robin Wright, CI SIAMO
Mary Gorman-McAdams, MW
Karen Goodlad,
CUNY CITY TECH
Mariko Kobayashi,
CHAMBERS ST. WINES
Julie Bramowitz, THE CARLYLE
Ignacio Monclús, T. EDWARDS
Julia Hofsass, LE BERNARDIN
Roger Dagorn, MS
Christy Frank,
COPAKE WINE WORKS
Bruno Almeida, NY SOMMELIER
Gianpaolo Paterlini, ACQUERELLO
Jerusha Frost,
THE INN AT POUND RIDGE
Amber Rill, CORKBUZZ
Jim Clarke, WINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
Cameron Mascia, COTE
Gregory Schwab CROWN SHY
Amber Rill, CORKBUZZ
Jamal Rayyis, PALATE SAVVY
Anibal Calcagno, OCEANS NY
CA TASTERS
Annette Rau Solomon,
ZONIN GROUP
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241
Nina Sventitsky,
NAPA VALLEY WINE ACAD.
Antonino Scaglione,
NA SOMMELIER ASSC.
Lucian Fink,
CONSULTANT
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