The World's Best Vineyards For 2020 Revealed
(CNN) - The comforting glug of wine into glass has been one of the few pleasures left to us during the long months of lockdown – but how much better to enjoy it on a sunlit winery terrace.
The World's Best Vineyards awards, created to honor the finest in modern wine tourism, was meant to be held this year in the lush surrounds of California's Sonoma County wine region, but – 2020 being 2020 – the winners this year were revealed online.
There was one constant in these topsy-turvy times however; South America remains the best destination for a vineyard vacation (once we're all traveling again).
Winner at the inaugural 2019 awards and now again in 2020, Zuccardi Valle de Uco is an Argentinian winery in the heart of the Uco Valley, at the foot of the Andes mountains. A family-run business founded in 1963, it delivers what the Best Vineyard Awards calls "precision-made high-altitude wines" out of a stunning modernist bodega.
Uruguay's Bodega Garzón, once again in second place, was praised as a leader in sustainability. It offers a top-class program of tastings and events, and its 120-seat restaurant offers Uruguayan cuisine and panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.
