Wine&S & pirits contents october 2019 20 VOLUME 38 NUMBER 5 features photos: (top) Loló by Nicole Parisi; (bottom left) MKB Photos; Carneros by Cayce Clifford 14 20 BEST NEW SOMMELIERS We asked sommeliers across the country to call out the top up-andcoming talents. These five stand at the ready to lead you to your next great wine discovery. THE W&S SF50 Luke Sykora highlights the places the pros go to drink and eat in San Francisco's Bay Area. 30 MEATLESS IN MENDOZA 32 VIN ROUGE DE REIMS 38 Patricio Tapia finds it's not so hard to be a vegetarian in the land of malbec. The top Coteaux Champenois-still pinot noirs from Champagne- provide the clearest evocation of the region's chalk and clouds, says W&S editor Joshua Greene. CARNEROS CHARDONNAY 32 Karen Moneymaker heads to the region that defined California chardonnay in the 1980s to profile Hyde and Hudson, two pioneering growers at the center of a chardonnay renaissance. WINE & SPIRITS OCTOBER 2019 5