Top 100 Country Reports
Every year the tasting team at JamesSuckling.com reviews the thousands of wines we have tasted over the course of the past 11 or 12 months and creates ranked lists of the top 100 wines of the world, the best 100 value wines and the top 100 wines from each country we cover.James Suckling, Stuart Pigott, Zekun Shuai, Claire Nesbitt, Andrii Stetsiuk and Kevin Davy taste wines from all the top wine countries and regions in the world and, when possible, meet the winemakers and estate owners. These lists are the result of those travels and the thousands of tastings that take place.Top 100 Country Reports
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Top 100 Wines of Portugal 2023
Friday, December 22, 2023
Our Portuguese Wine of the Year, the Niepoort Douro Robustus 2017, is not only one of the best table wines from the country, it also pays homage to the first unfortified Douro wine that Dirk Niepoort, the owner and fifth-generation winemaker, made in 1990.
Top 100 Wines of Germany 2023
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Our German Wine of the Year for 2023 says everything about the enormous progress that the nation’s leading winemakers have made since the terroir movement began to gain traction there in the late 1990s, leading to the GG dry single-vineyard wines of today.
Top 100 Wines of China 2023
Monday, December 18, 2023
Despite a flailing economy and lackluster demand in the domestic wine market, China’s top producers have maintained their unwavering commitment to producing world-class wines, and it shows in this Top 100 Wines of China list.
Top 100 Wines of the USA 2023
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
You won’t be surprised to see so many California wines in this year’s Top 100 Wines of the USA, but you might be slightly shocked to see so many pinot noirs and chardonnays, including our Wine of the Year for the USA, the Hirsch Vineyards Pinot Noir Sonoma County Sonoma Coast Raschen Ridge 2021.
Top 100 Wines of South Africa 2023
Monday, December 11, 2023
The outstanding quality of South Africa's chenin blancs rang clear on our Top 100 list, but the wine that made the biggest impression on us was a pure syrah, and it’s our South African Wine of the Year: the Porseleinberg Swartland 2021.
Top 100 Wines of Chile 2023
Friday, December 8, 2023
Purity, freshness and finesse will be remembered as the cornerstone characteristics of Chile’s 2021 vintage, but no wine encapsulates these qualities better in a single package than our Chilean Wine of the Year for 2023, the Seña Valle de Aconcagua 2021.
Top 100 Wines of Austria 2023
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Our Austrian Wine of the Year, the F.X. Pichler Riesling Wachau Unendlich 2021, is a perfect example of the late-released 2021s we were wowed by.
Top 100 Wines of Australia 2023
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
There is no better example of the inexorable rise of Australian grenache than our Australian Wine of the Year, the Yangarra Grenache McLaren Vale Ovitelli 2021.
Top 100 Wines of Italy 2023
Friday, December 1, 2023
The big news about this year’s Top 100 Wines of Italy list is all the 2019 Brunello di Montalcinos, but it was a Barolo from 2016 that claimed out top overall spot.