SAVE THE DATE!

25th San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

Public Tasting, February 15, 2025

  • Download the 2024 SFCWC Special Section Awards Guide


Announcing the Winners of the
2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

2024 SFCWC Sweepstake Medal Winners
2024 SFCWC Sweepstake Medal Winners

See the complete list of medal winners.


The 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Public Tasting

The 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Public Tasting

After a three-year hiatus, the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Public Tasting roared back to life with an incredible full-capacity return!
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Meet the 2024 Sweepstake Winemaker Award Winners

Meet the 2024 Sweepstake Winemaker Award Winners

The Sweepstake Winemaker Award is awarded to the winemaker that produces a Sweepstake wine award at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.
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2024 SFCWC Sweepstake Medal Winners

2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Sweepstakes Winners

Press Release: There were over fifty judges, representing various North American wine regions, evaluating over 5,500 wines from nearly 1,000 wineries for the 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition this week.
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Mike Dunne

Mike Dunne’s 2024 Best of Class Tasting Notes

For the competition in 2024, Mike first tasted best-of-class wines and then trimmed this wide field to the 70 wines that went into the concluding sweepstakes round, plus a few others that he found to represent exceptional character, quality, value, back stories and trends within the wine scene, especially the rise in grape varieties and wine styles beyond California.
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Eric Stine, one of the judges at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, evaluates a group of reds. Bob Ecker

2024 Judge Critiques Competition

Napa Valley Register, 1/29/24: Wine judging is often considered a privileged affair complete with knowing looks, wine geek speak, bourgeois clinking and sampling an assortment of rare and expensive wines.
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