Judging Nonalcoholic Wines at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition: A Grueling Start and Promising Future
The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, held annually by the Cloverdale Citrus Fair, tasked judges with evaluating a vast array of wines from North America. Among over 5,500 entries, the author’s first assignment was to judge 26 nonalcoholic wines, a challenging prospect given the unrefined state of this wine category. Evaluating such wines added complexity … Read more