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November 26, 2009

Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2009

Filed under: deVine's Daily Blog Article — Dirk @ 1:07 am

ws_top_2009Author: Dirk Chan

Every year, Wine Spectator, the influential American Wine publication releases their Top 100 Wines of the year. This year was no exception, although the criteria for making the list appears to have changed from
previous years. The focus this year is value driven wines as very noticeable that only a handful of wines on this list is over $100 while the majority are less than $25. Besides value, availability and the ‘X’ factor are the other criteria. However, given that the top two wines of the year have been unavailable for some time now, it almost defeats the purpose of naming the Wine of the Year that no one can get any of. Nevertheless, every wine connoisseur watches with interest to see they can acquire any of the wines..deVine has sixteen wines that made the grade for your attention.


It is heaven for lovers of American wines, as over thirty percent of the list is American! And it is wonderful for those of you looking for valued driven wines. Note what we have is limited, although there are probably another dozen wines or so on that needs to roll over to the correct vintage, it will not be here in time for Christmas so buy what’s available now. Here they are listed in descending ranking:

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