Our latest tasting sessions in Italy have centered on the Super Tuscans – an abstract, loosely defined category of wines that once emerged as a bold departure from Tuscany’s traditional DOCG regulations.

Three powerhouse wines from Napa’s Pahlmeyer winery topped our ratings this week, with plenty of company from Germany’s Eva Fricke winery, Australia’s Yarra Yering as well as some terrific offerings from Sardinia.

Senior Editor Stuart Pigott’s tastings in Alsace, France, have led him to the conclusion that 2023 is the best vintage for the region since 2019, and nowhere was that clearer than at Domaine Zind Humbrecht just outside the historic town of Colmar.

Senior Editor Stuart Pigott’s foray into Alsace, France, showed him that the best of the region’s dry whites now have a finesse and purity about them that was rare only a decade ago.

The top-scoring wine for this week, the Catena Zapata Chardonnay Mendoza Adrianna Vineyard White Bones 2023, remains in a class of its own, according to Senior Editor Jacobo García Andrade, who tasted this great Argentine offering during his visit to the country.