Finding great wine at a fair price is never easy, but there are plenty of genuine deals out there if you are willing to look, starting with our No. 1 Value Wine of 2025, the Schiopetto Pinot Grigio Collio 2024.

So much great wine is being made around the world right now that it’s hard to narrow our favorites, but after reviewing more than 45,000 wines over the past 12 months we have done just that with our JamesSuckling.com Top 100 World Wines 2025. And it’s no surprise that the exceptional 2022 vintage in Bordeaux also gave us our Wine of the Year!

Our Top 100 Wines of Italy of 2025 underscore the rising influence of Mount Etna as a world-class wine region and the growing need for high-quality Italian wines to remain reasonably priced – and the No. 1 Italian wine is a clear reflection of this.

If you think that a list of the most exciting American wines would be dominated by Napa Valley cabernet sauvignons, you would be wrong. West Coast pinot noir and chardonnay dominate the upper echelon of our Top 100 Wines of the USA 2025 list, and they all exemplify the theme of great value that we’re emphasizing this year, none more so than our American Wine of the Year.

Sometimes I feel like a character from James Hilton’s Lost Horizon when I visit some of the best wine producers in New Zealand. But it’s not about finding Shangri-La – it’s about discovering remarkable wines from pristine vineyards farmed organically and regeneratively, producing wines of striking precision and refinement.