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Esther Mobley

Journalist · Critic — California wine, the state's wineries and wine bars, and the drinking side of Bay Area restaurants. The Chronicle's wine desk in one byline.

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Esther Mobley is the San Francisco Chronicle's senior wine critic, on that beat since 2015, and the paper's verdicts on wineries and wine lists run under her name. Before the Chronicle she was an assistant editor at Wine Spectator and worked harvests at wineries in Napa and Argentina, which is cellar-floor knowledge under the byline. Tonight's corpus already leans on her at-source: the Broc Cellars assessment, Stillwater, Mill Valley Beerworks' closing, the Trappist's last pour.

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