The world’s best vineyards for 2020 revealed
CNNCNN — The comforting glug of wine into glass has been one of the few pleasures left to us during the long months of lockdown – but how much better to enjoy it on a sunlit winery terrace. The World’s Best Vineyards awards, created to honor the finest in modern wine tourism, was meant to be held this year in the lush surrounds of California’s Sonoma County wine region, but – 2020 being 2020 – the winners this year were revealed online. Courtesy Bodega Garzon/World's Best Vineyards No checklist, no criteria The awards are based on nominations from a Voting Academy made up of more than 500 wine experts across the globe. Its new cellar, opened in 2012, is a glorious brick-red structure of terracotta and wood and is, explained the World’s Best Vineyards voiceover, “designed for gravity-flow winemaking.” With no use of pumps or mechanics, it’s a gentler approach to an ancient craft. Courtesy Marqués de Riscal/World's Best Vineyards Impressive new vineyard from Japan New Zealand’s Rippon, a biodynamic vineyard on the shores of Lake Wanaka, dropped five places to No.
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