Golden Gate Wine Cellars 2010 Top 10 wines

Every year around this time since 1988, Wine Spectator releases it's list of the top 100 wines of the year. The list just hit the bookstands and includes some incredible selections from around the world. Tasting each of the 13,000 plus wines they chose from would have me under the table in no time at all. So for the Golden Gate Wine Cellars Best Wines of 2010 list, we will keep it a little simpler and present you with my top 10 wines of 2010. This year showed an amazing diversity and some very notable new faces in the wine world. Choosing only ten of the truly great wines I have encountered this year to make this list was quite a task. However, after much deliberation, here is the result:

   1. Coho 2007 Merlot “Michael Black”  - GGWC 97 Points 
   2. Clark Claudon 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon – GGWC 96 Points
   3. Inherit the Sheep 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon – GGWC 96 Points 
   4. DuMol 2008 Chardonnay “Chloe” – GGWC 95 Points 
   5. Coho 2008 Headwaters Cabernet Blend – GGWC 95 Points
   6. Wolf Family 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon – GGWC 95 Points
   7. Bella 2008 Zinfandel “Lily Hill Reserve” – GGWC 94 Points 
   8. Revana 2007 Cabernet – GGWC 94 Pt. – (97 Points – Wine Spectator #4 wine of the year) 
   9. Wolf Family 2009 Sauvignon Blanc – GGWC 94 Points
  10. Stephane Coquillette Champagne NV Brut – GGWC 94 Points


Honorable mentions:

  11. Coho 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon – GGWC 94 Points
  12. Sans Liege 2008 GSM “The Offering”  – GGWC 94 Points
  13. Wrath 2007 Pinot Noir – GGWC 93 Points 
  14. Walter Hansel 2008 Chardonnay “Cahill Lane” –  GGWC 93 Points
  15. Malk 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon – GGWC 93 Points