We rated more than 3,500 wines in March from 12 countries, and although we uncovered only a single 100-pointer, dozens of outstanding cabernet sauvignons, pinot noirs, malbecs, chardonnays and blends came out of France, the United States, Germany, Argentina, New Zealand and more.

We rated 632 wines from seven countries over the past week, with Executive Editor Jim Gordon tasting the stellar wines of Argentina’s Viña Cobos far from their source, yet at the home base of their creator, Paul Hobbs in Sonoma County, California.

Anyone with enough money can organize a vertical tasting of, say, Chateau Mouton Rothschild, because several hundred thousand bottles are produced each vintage. But a wine like the Keller G-Max belongs to a completely different species of cult wines.

The 2022 vintage in Chablis confirms that a warming climate challenges the typicity of the region, with Chablis’ saline oyster-shell notes and tensile mineral infusion increasingly giving way to riper fruit accents that verge on bumptious.

The sheer variety at the top of our ratings for February is striking: we gave out perfect scores to six different types of wines from five countries. They included a chardonnay from Argentina, a syrah and two Bordeaux blends from Chile, a cabernet sauvignon from California, a riesling from Austria and a sparkling wine from Germany.

Our top-scoring bottles this week came from California, where Executive Editor Jim Gordon tasted wines from two unique vineyards, one at high elevation in the Mayacamas Mountains and one next door to the San Pablo Bay.

Our latest Weekly Tasting Report features a few terrific under-the-radar wines from California, a handful of sterling syrahs from Washington and a breathtaking sparkling wine from Germany.

South America's 2021 vintage continues to surprise us with its cool and temperate conditions, especially the Apalta wine region in Chile’s Colchagua Valley, which gave us two perfect-scoring wines.

We rated 2,298 wines to kick off the first month of 2024, and came away with five perfect-scoring wines – four from Napa Valley’s 2021 vintage and one from Hungary. But what made Napa's 2021s so good?