Our tastings of 2,464 wines in May brought a wealth of delicious offerings from 11 countries, but it was Alsace, France, where we hit the jackpot, uncovering four perfect-scoring bottles and leaving Senior Editor Stuart Pigott gushing over the dry white wines from Alsace’s 2023 vintage.

The JamesSuckling.com team tasted 2,164 wines from 10 countries in April, uncovering three perfect-scoring bottles and an abundance of excellence from France, Italy, the United States, Argentina and beyond.

Although our March tastings didn’t uncover any perfect-scoring wines, they did underline that exceptional examples can always be found from a broad array of wine countries and regions, and spring from an equally effusive mixture of varietals and blends.

The four wines that we gave our top rating of 100 points to in February all came from California – three from Sonoma County and one from Napa. Surprisingly, only one was a cabernet sauvignon-based, the Colgin Cellars Napa Valley IX Estate 2022.

We rated 1,479 wines in our first tasting month of 2025 – not including all the bottles we rated for our Bordeaux 2022 Vintage Report – and found two perfect-scoring wines, as well as a bounty of goodness from regions such as Napa Valley, the Rheingau in Germany, Barolo and Greece.