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Rare Champagne 2012 Earns Perfect 100-Point Score from James Suckling

Castle Rock Winery’s 2024 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Earns 91 Points from James Suckling

Castle Rock Winery’s 2023 Lodi Zinfandel Featured inВ Wine SpectatorВ Following 90-Point James Suckling Rating

Review: Wines of Xander Soren, 2026 Releases

We greatly enjoyed our last go-round with California’s Xander Soren wines, and recently the operation sent a full complement of new releases, spanning all eight of its current offe...

Review: Maison Wessman Hot Blood Wines, 2026 Releases

We recently reviewed the red and white Raven wines from Maison Wessman, which were made in collaboration with musician JJ Julius Son, the frontman for the band Kaleo. Now we swing...

Review: 2025 Frescobaldi Tuscan White and Rose

When one thinks of Tuscan wines, one usually imagines Italy’s most renowned reds, including Chianti, Brunello di Montalicino, and Super Tuscans. This makes sense since 86% of the r...

Review: Wines of Opolo, 2026 Releases

    Opolo‘s 2026 releases have started arriving, and we’re tucking into five offerings from this Paso Robles operation — surely with more to come as the year stretches on. Let’s di...

рџ“єKaren MacNeil and Eric Asimov

Eric Asimov is the wine critic for The New York Times, a position he has held for 22 years. His columns on wine not only cover wine and wine regions, but als...

Tasting Opus One 1979-2000 with winemaker legend Michael Silacci

Review: 2025 Quinta da Fonte Souto Florao White

Depending on the time of publication, we will have passed the one-year mark since trying the 2024 vintage of Portugal/Symington’s Quinta da Fonte Souto Florao White. Not much has c...

Saffirio’s Nebbiolo d’Alba Spumante Brut Rosé and Langhe DOC Rosato

Review: 3 South American Bordeaux-Style Red Blends, 2026 Releases

To label a wine a “Bordeaux-Style Red Blend” is to make a promise in the manner of a politician: confident in tone, possibly vacant in substance, and dependent on an unwillingness...

Review: 2023 Daou Soul of a Lion Cabernet Sauvignon Adelaida District

This is our third round with Daou’s Soul of a Lion, the highest-end offering the Paso Robles winery produces. 2023’s release is 76% cabernet sauvignon, 18% cabernet franc, and 6% p...

Review: 2022 Aesthetic Cabernet Sauvignon California

A “California” designation on a bottle of cabernet sauvignon is usually a kiss of budgety death, but this wine combats expectations from the jump. Aesthetic’s 2022 cab is easily mi...

рџ“єHow Halliday Really Judges 9000 Australian Wines

Tasting Report: Spotlight on 2026 Italian Wine Releases

We didn’t make it to Wine Paris this year, but Wine Paris made it to us, courtesy of Communicare il Vino, which sent along 12 selections from its Italian portfolio which were showc...

рџ“єWinemaker Of The Year | Jesse Katz, Aperture Cellars

рџ“єI Bought 12 Bottles After One Sip of This $28 Wine

14 best rosé wines for every palate, tasted-tested by an expert

I tasted roses from all over the world for this review

рџ“єI Bought A Dozen Of Nearly Every Wine (Blind Tasting)

This might be the best blind tasting lineup we've ever had. Different Drop sent us six wines from wine making legends around the world, and we ended up buyin...

Tim Atkin MW’s SA Special Report features top South African wines

рџ“єCELEBRITY Wine: Genuine or scam? A Sommelier Opens Famous Bottles (Kylie, Brad Pitt, Snoop)

Kylie Minogue, Brad Pitt, Gordon Ramsay, Snoop Dogg, Gary Barlow, Elton John... the celebrity wine shelf keeps growing! A sommelier opens five bottles with t...

рџ“єThe Pope of White Wine

All the medallists from The Global Syrah Masters 2026