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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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Eric Stine, one of the judges at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, evaluates a group of reds. Bob Ecker
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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2024 SFCWC Sweepstake Medal 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
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...
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Bill Hayes
Bob Fraser, Executive Director of the SFCWC states, "Bill Hayes was an instrumental veteran judge of the competition...
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Mike Dunne
For each San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, longtime wine writer Mike Dunne tastes and jots notes on best-of-class wines. For the competition in 2023, Mike first tasted best-of-class wines and then trimmed this wide field to the 50 wines he found most exemplary.
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The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition has grown to become North America’s most respected and highly publicized wine competition. The competition has established itself as a platform for large and boutique wineries alike to showcase their wines on a national scale.
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m2 Wines’ 2019 “Patina” Red Wine Mokelumne River, Lodi from California was the Sweepstakes Winner in the Packaging Design Contest at the 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, receiving a Double Gold and Best of Class in the Surface Designs category.
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Mike Dunne
This year, Mike Dunne shares his insights and tasting notes for 162 Best of Class winners, giving wine consumers an inside look at why these wines were named the best of each category.
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