Year End
The Top 10 Wines of 2019 Hail from France, Germany, Even Japan
Wine critic Elin McCoy tasted more than 4,000 wines this year, and her favorites range from legendary vintages reaching their climax to unfamiliar varietals from regions she’d never encountered before.
A yearend review of my most memorable wine experiences requires hours of scrolling through tasting notes.
It’s never easy to pick my annual 10 best of the best, and it was especially tough in 2019. I sampled more than 4,000 reds, whites, and bubblies in places as far flung as Japan.