Estate Crush’s gold medal winning wines signal shift towards restrained wines | Food and Drink

Getting a gold medal at each January’s San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition is a big deal because it has been involving over 5,500 wines submitted from more than 25 states; making this easily the largest single judging of American wines in the world.  Also because the Bay Area wine professionals doing the judging are among the best in the world (also see our previous post, Smallest Lodi wineries earn biggest awards at San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competiton). All wine judgings, as it were, are direct reflections of the taste of the individuals doing the judging – no more, no less. .. VIEW MORE »