These 12 Unforgettable Wines Are About Way More Than Quality
What turns a great wine into an unforgettable one? Our critic rounds up the dozen best, most memorable bottles out of the more than 4,000 she tasted this year.
The best wines of 2024.
Source: VendorHi Top Shelf, and happy holidays from Elin McCoy, Bloomberg’s wine critic, with my most memorable wines, 2024 edition.
Every December, I spend hours combing through my stack of red tasting notebooks to home in on the standout bottles and think about why they wowed me. In 2024, I found dozens of serious contenders for my annual top 10 among the great reds, whites, rosés and sparkling wines I sampled in visits to everywhere from Chile to Italy, France to California, and my home terroir of New York City. This year, I included a bonus two more. (Here are my lists from 2023, 2022 and 2021.)