The Top 100 Wines of Chile this year honors the adventurous spirit embodied in the 1,546 bottles of Chilean wines we reviewed in 2024, spotlighting the generally more precise, refined 2021 vintage alongside standouts from the solid 2022 harvest.

The unique confluence of climate, topography and rich varietal heritage in Portugal make for a wide range of wines that appeal for their drinkability, distinctiveness and value.

A few years ago, the number of daring Austrian wines was rather small, but our Austrian Wine of the Year for 2024 redefines what wines from the gruner veltliner grape can be.

For anyone who dismisses Argentine wines for being nothing more than a showcase of heavy malbecs, it’s time to take another look, starting with our Argentine Wine of the Year, the evolved Altos Las Hormigas Malbec Paraje Altamira Valle de Uco Los Amantes 2021.

The JamesSuckling.com tasting team had plenty of stellar wines to choose from for our Top 100 Wines of the USA 2024 list, but we wanted to show you things you don’t know about already, starting with our U.S. Wine of the Year: a beautiful, 98-point merlot that costs a reasonable $120 a bottle.