Looking again at my top wines of 2019, the list was drawn from bottles tasted at a friend’s birthday party, a private Figeac dinner for 20 people, and a lavish, extremely starry Mouton Rothschild charity event for several hundred people at the Palace of Versailles.
The round-up also included wines tasted at a hotel in St-Emilion with a group from the Napa Valley Reserve in California, a small dinner at New York’s Vaucluse restaurant, a private supper in Pomerol, a local restaurant in Bordeaux, and during a château visit up in the Médoc.
There was just one from an evening at home, and even then it was cooking for a friend who was visiting from Scotland.
This year, seven of the 10 wines were tasted at my house, five of them in front of a computer screen during a Zoom tasting.
Scroll down to see tasting notes for Jane Anson’s top 10 fine wines of 2020
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Jane Anson’s top fine wines of 2020: Tasting notes and scores
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