Wine&S & pirits Winter 2020 contents Volume 39 number 6 The Best Of 2020 1 Editor's Note 6 What We Believe And how we select the Top 100. 8 Wineries to Watch New names that caught our attention this year. 12 The W&S Premier Cru Wineries with the strongest track records in three decades of our Top 100. 16 Top Importers of the Year Nine players with the strongest showings in this issue. The W&S Top 100 Wineries 2020 Standouts in their regions, with the top performances in our blind tastings over the past 12 months. 4 Directory to the Top 100 20 US Wineries 42 Overseas Wineries The W&S Top 100 Wines The greatest bottles we tasted this year. 78 Top 100 Best Wines of 2020 93 Top 100 Best Buys of 2020 104 The Year's Top Bottles for $12 or Less QUINTA DO BOM RETIRO, RAMOS PINTO Cover photo by Maurizio di Iorio. WINE & SPIRITS BUYING GUIDE 2021 3