Jackie Risser

Destinations Truly exceptional people, places, and things we experienced this year. I experienced many joys on Easter Island — from wild horses roaming my resort grounds to visiting the island’s iconic moai statues in the midst of a biblical sunrise rainstorm. But what I will never forget are the sunsets. Every night, I stepped outside my room at Nayara Hangaroa and walked a few feet to the island’s precipice, a steep volcanic cliff giving way to jagged rocks and a vast ocean expanse.

WINE IS OFTEN said to be a time machine — a portal to a particular place and moment that archives not just the land from which it derives, but every hand that touches it, the weather it witnesses, the age of the vines, the growing methods employed, the ethos of its winemaker, the barrels in which it's stored, its age — some suggest it even reflects the emotions it encounters and the soul of its origins. A tercentenary bottle of Ducru-Beaucaillou 2020, then, has a long legacy to live up to.

WINE IS OFTEN said to be a time machine — a portal to a particular place and moment that archives not just the land from which it derives, but every hand that touches it, the weather it witnesses, the age of the vines, the growing methods employed, the ethos of its winemaker, the barrels in which it's stored, its age — some suggest it even reflects the emotions it encounters and the soul of its origins. A tercentenary bottle of Ducru-Beaucaillou 2020, then, has a long legacy to live up to.