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TOP 100S FOR THE HOLIDAYS, BORDEAUX’S SWEET CARESS AND GREAT WINES IN MIAMI
Seasons greetings from the entire team at JamesSuckling.com, and here’s to wishing you the very best holidays, and wines, as we head into the festive season. If you’re looking to add some of the world’s best bottles to your holiday wish list, look no further than our Top 100 Wines reports on China, Germany and Portugal, where you’ll find something for absolutely every taste. And James gives us his take on Bordeaux’s 2021 vintage in our latest Weekly Tasting Report, while Our Wine Choice showcases a sterling Portuguese white wine from the 2020 vintage. Don’t forget – our biggest wine event ever, Great Wines World Miami, starts on Feb. 29. It will feature select wines from more than 400 of the world’s top producers, with many of the wines rated 95 points or more by the JamesSuckling.com tasting team. It’s going to be a great way to meet and network with top winemakers from North and South America and elsewhere, as well as with wine lovers and industry peers. You’ll want to get your tickets early for this one because we expect huge demand. Click on all the links below to get all the latest at JamesSuckling.com, and enjoy your holidays in style!

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TOP 100 WINES OF CHINA 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.

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TOP 100 WINES OF GERMANY 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.

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BORDEAUX 2021’S SWEET CARESS, PLUS WARMING UP IN BADEN: WEEKLY TASTING REPORT
Some highly rated Bordeaux Right Bank wines in this week’s report highlight how the 2021 vintage made some superlative wines with merlot despite being one of the most difficult grape-growing seasons in recent history.

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GREAT WINES OF THE WORLD MIAMI 2024

Feb. 29, 2024 – March 1, 2024 — One of the USA’s best premium annual wine-tasting events for wine lovers and the wine trade. Join James Suckling and esteemed winemakers at this exclusive tasting event!

COME TO MIAMI!

OUR WINE CHOICE: QUINTA MARIA IZABEL DOURO BRANCO SUBLIME 2020

Many Portuguese white wines have excellent freshness and acidity despite the country’s warm growing seasons, but the Quinta Maria Izabel Douro Branco Sublime 2020 stands out for its elegance, minerality and wild energy.

TOP 100 WINES OF PORTUGAL 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.

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TOP 100 WINES OF SPAIN 2023

Spanish wines earned an impressive eight spots among our Top 100 World Wines this year but one was so exceptional that it was an easy pick for our Spanish Wine of the Year.

TOP 100 WINES OF FRANCE 2023

Our French Wine of the Year is a brilliant and impeccably balanced expression of pinot gris from the 2021 vintage. It’s also eminently affordable.

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JAMES SUCKLING & FRIENDS’ WHITE BORDEAUX TASTING ON HONG KONG’S LAMMA ISLAND [VIDEO]
It’s not every day you have a tasting of some of the best aged white Bordeaux on a small island off the coast of Central, Hong Kong, but that’s how James and a few friends rolled a couple of weekends ago.

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