We made it through a few hundred Bordeaux 2020 wines over the past week, with James feeling like it's getting close to the superb 2019 vintage in quality.

Each of the top guns at JamesSuckling.com has his or her own favorite yuletide bottle, and many of these will be uncorked in an attempt to unleash the best Christmas (or otherwise) vibes possible on the special day. Find out here what our staff's holiday favorites are!

The Chateau Valandraud at the top of our list this week highlights the excellence of Bordeaux’s newest vintage on the market, 2020, particularly from the Right Bank, such as St. Emilion and Pomerol. But you’ll also notice a few dozen ratings of various vintages of top wines from Burgundy’s Chassagne-Montrachet.

We tapped into some sterling Bordeaux wines during our tastings over the past week and also uncorked some stunning Philipponnat Champagnes. And our road trip into Serbia resulted in a few choice discoveries.

We rated 2,321 wines during November from 14 countries, bringing us to well over 30,000 wines tasted during 2022 with December still to go. Check out all our favorites from the month here...

Spain’s cult red, the Dominio de Pingus, delivers a benchmark for the country year in and year out, and wine lovers and collectors around the world clamor to get their hands on a bottle. But how does 2020 compare with 2019?

Our tastings of nearly 500 wines over the past week yielded some awesome 2018 Brunellos, surprising 2020 German pinot noirs and impressive Yunnan and Ningxia offerings.

Most of our October tastings were taken up by Australian and New Zealand wines, in conjunction with our annual reports, but there was plenty more from Spain, South Africa and Germany.

We continued our journey through the world of Australian wines this past week, rating more than 800 bottles, including some of the finest shiraz and dry white rieslings the country has to offer.