The JamesSuckling.com tasting team rated 764 wines this week, with Senior Editor Aldo Fiordelli checking out the best new timorasso releases in Italy and Senior Editor Jacobo García Andrade tasting Galicia’s finest offerings from 2022 and 2023. But it was Executive Editor Jim Gordon and Associate Editor Ryan Montgomery who tapped into more of Napa Valley’s excellent 2023 vintage and hit the mother…

The Pieropan winery in Soave, italy, has long been known for quality. But with the 2023 vintage and the Pieropan Soave Classico La Rocca 2023, they seem to have captured the golden moment of Soave.

An exceptional lineup awaited Senior Editor Aldo Fiordelli this past week in Barbaresco, where he tasted all the crus produced by the renowned cooperative winery Produttori del Barbaresco from what is already widely regarded as a fantastic 2021 vintage.

The JamesSuckling.com tasting team rated 372 wines over the past week, with much of the focus on the latest offerings from Gredos, Spain; Santa Barbara, California and Soave, Italy.

The 2022 vintage in Napa Valley has drawn mixed reactions from winemakers and critics alike, but it’s not all doom and gloom – there are plenty of 2022 gems from Napa’s mountain vineyards that show balance, freshness and site expression.