If the events of the past year forced you to tighten you wallet, this list is for you. The best value-for-money wines we discovered in 2020, all retailing for less than or around US$35.

We find 100 wines that give us hope and joy from almost 18,000 rated in this most difficult year.

After tasting 25,000 wines in 2019 here are the best 100, including the one wine that stood apart from all others.

This year we rated more than 22,000 wines, and after banging our heads together for weeks, have managed to pick out our favorite 100. Take a look, and feel free to add your own top wines of the year in the comments

This year, we tasted close to 17,000 wines. JamesSuckling.com tasters including myself, Stuart Pigott, Nick Stock and my son Jack tasted wines in just about every major winegrowing country, check on the top 100 wines of 2017 here.

This year’s list of my Top 100 Wines focuses mainly on key themes I found during my tastings and reports on JamesSuckling.com over the last 10 months, including the great 2010 Brunellos, exciting 2012 super Tuscans, top Spanish reds and whites, as well as the superb wines of Chile, Argentina

My colleague Nick Stock and I posted more than 10,000 tasting notes on JamesSuckling.com in the past year; with all the great wines among them, it was difficult to pick the best. The Top 100 Wines of 2014 below are based primarily on ratings. I considered all wines that scored

1. Chateau Malescot-St.-Exupery Margaux 2009 98 points 2. Poggio Antico Brunello di Montalcino Altero 2007 98 points 3. Valdicava Brunello di Montalcino 2007 98 points 4. Zenato Amarone della Valpolicella Sergio Zenato Riserva 2006 98 points 5. Domaine de Chevalier Pessac-Leognan 2009 97 points 6. Pio Cesare Barolo Ornato 2008