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El Bierzo has emerged in the past decade as one of the most significant wine regions in Spain, with fresh and crunchy but also profound and ageworthy reds making a name for the frontierland perched on the edge of Galicia in the country’s northwest.

Tradition-bound Bordeaux is seeing a new breed of winemakers who use a greater percentage of whole bunches in their fermentations to make fresher, more vibrant versions of their wines. The results are especially noticeable in hot and dry grape-growing seasons such as the region’s most recent year in bottle, 2022.

The 2021 Barolo vintage is looking like a landmark year, shaped by four key factors beyond the empirical evidence found in the tasting of nearly 300 wines by Senior Editors Aldo Fiordelli and Jacobo García Andrade, whose explorations spanned Alba and the cellars of the appellation’s various communes.

We rated more than 2,100 wines from Australia in 2024, mostly from the 2022 and 2023 vintages, with our tastings highlighting a marked shift toward purity, poise and balance and away from ripeness and power.

It’s easy to get distracted by the diversity of grape varieties and wine styles while tasting wines and interviewing winemakers in California’s Santa Barbara County, but there’s no getting around the fact that pinot noir is this ocean-adjacent region’s biggest star.
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