It’s not often that any wine region gains a great new star winemaker, but Anita Neveu is exactly that for the beautiful but underrated region of Beaujolais.

James interviews Austin Peterson, the winemaker for Ovid in Napa Valley, about the advantages of their new vineyard plantings, which resemble those from 30 years ago with their low density and wide spacing.

We rated 624 wines over the past week, with three of the JamesSuckling.com tasting team members making a deep dive into Oregon as we tapped into the latest 2021 and 2022 vintage releases.

The sold-out Great Wines World event in Miami marked the beginning of our 2024 events season with a new record of more than 6,000 wine enthusiasts and industry professionals in attendance. Check out our video coverage here.

Brothers Dante and Carlo Mondavi of Raen discuss the 2022 vintage in Sonoma, California, and how they made such fresh wines from what what otherwise a dry and hot vintage.

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.

It’s been a roller-coaster ride for Washington State grape growers and winemakers since the turn of the decade, with challenge after challenge over the past four years. But top producers are nevertheless making better wines than ever, and the ones we spoke to showed resilience in the face of unpredictability.

Associate Editor Claire Nesbitt sits down with Canvasback winemaker Joseph Czarny to talk about the 2021 vintage in Washington and how the growing season impacted the fruit and the wines made that year.