World’s Greatest Vineyards (according to WS)

Last months issue of WS had their listing. Thought it might be a fun discussion.
I’ll list their top 10 with ability to vote for a top 3.

If they left one off let’s hear it. They did list a bunch of runner’s up.

  • Romanee Conti
  • To Kalon
  • Montrachet
  • Quinta Do Novak Nacional
  • l’Enclos
  • Tignanello
  • JJ Cohn
  • La Landonne
  • Masseto
  • Wehlener Sonnenuhr
  • Not Listed
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Wow. A Riesling vinyd beating out the heartbreak grape?!

For a brief moment.

Clos du Mesnil

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Please tell me that’s your spelling error on QdNN, not theirs.

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Guilty
Bull in China fingers.
No edits on polls for some reason…:frowning:

I hope it’s not fooling anyone :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Scharzhofberger, Hubacker, Morstein, Felseneck, Halenberg, Dellchen, Grunhaus Abtsberg, Im Weinegebirge, Singerriedel, Clos Ste. Hunes, etc…

Vigna Rionda, Cannubi, Brunate, Rocche (both Annunziata and Castiglione), Monprivato, Asili, Rabaja, Santo Stefano, etc…

Coulee de Serrant, Clos du Bourg, Le Bourg, Les Poyeaux, etc…

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Someday we’ll be talking about Weathereye Vineyard.

Here are the next…

L’Ermita
Adrianna
La Crau
Hirsch
Montosoli
Chambertin-Clos de Beze
Monte Rosso
Bernkasteler Doctor
Rabaja
Hill of Grace
Hyde
Clos Ste.-Hune
Old Hill Ranch
Les Bessards
Rocche di Castiglione
Champoux
Clos du Mesnil
Mayacamas
Clos Fourtet
Bien Nacido

Probably more room for disagreement as to who might fall into 5 to 30 on the list.

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Several overly generous nominations in that list.

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At some point stuff like this just becomes listing vineyards. There’s LOADS of great vineyards all over the world. I would argue trying to name the 10 “best” is an exercise in futility but were one to try and do that simply listing vineyards isn’t a way to go. I couldn’t name the 10 best because outside of Oregon and Burgundy I’m not especially well-versed in great vineyards.

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Of course, but haven’t you been involved with us best of list lovers in the NBA thread :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Who are the first three off?

JJ Cohn
Tignanello
Not Listed?

Picking a top 10 in the NBA ANYTHING is way easier than picking ten best vineyards in the world. For sure.

What if you had to pick one per country…

A better representation might be to say…

If you had to pick one vineyard to sample a regional benchmark what is the choice?

So, like the Top 200 vineyards in the world but some of them aren’t really in the Top 200?

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Somebody start an Oregon top ten for Jim please :joy:

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The point of lists like this is to cause disagreement and, therefore, clicks.

The effort to achieve equal geographic distribution is a little too patently obvious.

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OMG please don’t, I am sure people have made lists of vineyards in Oregon here.

The point being listing Wehlener Sonnenuhr as the only Riesling vineyard in the top 10 vineyards in the world is silly when there are so many others that are equal to it if not better than it.

Not listing a single Nebbiolo vineyard, but listing two Super Tuscans is equally silly.

There are a wealth of great vineyards in the Loire, but not including one while having two California vineyards is myopic.

The whole exercise is of course just click bait, but OP asked for other candidates and I offered them.

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