James heads into the winery in Martinborough, New Zealand, to sort his clones 5 and 6 with winemaker Helen Masters.

James talks with Paul Mason, the chief winemaker for Martinborough Vineyard in New Zealand, about the challenges the 2022 vintage presented.

On March 13, James and his team picked his pinot noir clones 5 and 6 at his vineyard in New Zealand. They harvested over 80 rows, comprising more than 2,240 vines. Watch on for more.

James harvested his 828 clone of pinot noir on March 7 at his small vineyard in Martinborough, New Zealand. Check out the action here!

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?

High scores for Californian reds top the list in this Weekly Tasting Report, highlighting the greatness of the 2021 vintage for the state.

The JamesSuckling.com tasting team added another 561 wines to its early-year tally over the course of the past week as it spread out around the globe to bring you ratings from 12 countries, including such mainstays as the U.S., France and Australia all the way to China, Peru and Israel.

The reach of JamesSuckling.com social media hit new heights in 2023, none more so than our Facebook page, which jumped to 145,000 followers, an increase of 53 percent, since the end of 2022. Here is the best of our Facebook posts from last year.

Now that we at JamesSuckling.com are rating more than 40,000 wines per year, there is a lot to share on Instagram as our wine-tasting team travels to the farthest reaches of the wine world. But some of our Instagram posts and reels were more popular than others, so here's the rundown of our Top 10 Insta hits from 2023...