Year in Review
The 10 Most Memorable Wines That I Drank This Year
A 45-year-old Champagne and a Chinese red make our wine critic’s list of Top 10 wines.
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Picking my Top 10 experiences of 2021 wasn’t easy: I sampled great wines from 18 countries on six continents this year.
Flipping through my tasting notebooks revealed stars for dozens of wines, including great vintages of Bordeaux, memorable California cabernets and chardonnays, and brand-new, stellar cuvées from Champagne, both fizzy and not.