Here’s to a Great Year

As a wine critic, I can’t think of many years more exciting than 2016, writes James Suckling

After tasting more than 12,000 wines during the year, I’d rated no less than 20 perfect, hence the 10 Best Wines of 2016 published on the preceding pages are all rated 100 points. You can see my complete list of Top 100 Wines of 2016 at JamesSuckling.com. All were tasted from the bottle, which is why the list doesn’t include 2015 Bordeaux, a fantastic vintage not available in the bottle until 2018. Most of the 100-point wines are from Italy and the Napa Valley. The 2013 vintage could be the greatest ever for the latter, which produced rich and structured cabernet sauvignon-based wines, while the 2010 vintage in Tuscany made phenomenal Brunello di Montalcinos. It’s wines like these that serve as reference points for wine lovers around the world. My Wine of…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2017

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