Two years after the hazy, chaotic days of the 2020 wine harvest, a season bookended by sprawling wildfires, some Napa Valley winemakers are coming out with a surprising announcement: They made wine in 2020. And they’re proud of it. Not just any winemakers. Some of the wineries that plan to release 2020 red wines in the coming months include some of Napa’s — even the world’s — most elite, including Harlan Estate, Spottswoode Winery, Dominus Estate, Corison Winery and Eisele Vineyard. The existence of these high-end Napa wines plainly contradicts the narrative that began to circulate during the fall of 2020, when many wineries declared that they would not be making any wine that year. The reason: They feared their wines had been marred by smoke taint from major wildfires, a phenomenon in which ambient smoke can nestle inside grapes hanging on the vine, imparting unpleasantly smoky flavors that are difficult to remove from the resulting wine. To read more, click on the link in our bio. 📸: @salguwissmath