Bar/Pub - James Suckling in Hong Kong

Has malbec finally moved away from its jammy character in its top wines? Argentina has been through a renaissance in recent years, making much more intense and balanced reds, particularly with malbec. Does this mark a shift in quality, finally bringing the varietal wines from the top producers away from the jamminess of the past and into the modern era? At this masterclass, attendees will taste wines from some of the best names in the country to better understand the wonde...rful age-worthiness and the overall magic of malbec. - FULL LIST OF WINES - Bemberg Estate Wines Malbec Valle del Pedernal La Yesca Parcela 13 La Linterna 2014 Bemberg Estate Wines Gualtallary Valle De Uco Pionero 2014 Bodega Piedra Negra Malbec Valle de Uco Gran Malbec 2017 Catena Zapata Malbec Mendoza Adrianna Vineyard River Stones 2017 Catena Zapata Malbec Mendoza Malbec Argentino 2018 Kaiken Malbec Mendoza Mai 2017 Terrazas de los Andes Malbec Mendoza High Altitude Vineyards Grand Terroirs 2017 Trapiche Malbec Gualtallary Valle de Uco Terroir Series Finca Ambrosia Single Vineyard 2017 . . . . . #drinkgreatwines #winelover #winetasting #winelovers #winetime #winestagram #winery #instawine #winelife #wineoclock #wineporn #wineoftheday #winesofinstagram #greatwinesoftheworld #gww2020 @catenawines @kaikenwines @terrazas_andes @bembergwines

And we're off! First session of Great Wines of the World. Full house. Almost 200 wines from iconic producers from around the world. 51 sessions to go.

NEW REPORT: Top 100 Wines of 2020! It has been a crazy year, our usual travels after February to wineries in all parts of the world to meet winemakers had to be cancelled, but the JamesSuckling.com team still managed to taste 18,000 wines over the last 12 months. Here are the best 100, ranked - available now for premium subscribers only. The Wine of the Year 2020 may surprise you... ! https://www.jamessuckling.com/wine-tast/top-100-wines-2020/

James organized a special online masterclass for this year’s Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival on Friday, November 13, for key media influencers in Europe and Asia focusing on New Bordeaux which included a dry white from Sauternes, a delicate rosé from the Médoc and an amphora-produced red from the Côtes de Bordeaux Castillon. It was his first live online tasting conducted with media. It was a really fun and informative show, said James Suckling, after the 36-minute online m...asterclass. I was happy to taste and discuss some of the new wines of Bordeaux with other media and they all seemed happy and surprised by the quality of the wines, most of which cost about USD$20 a bottle. The image for Bordeaux, particularly in Hong Kong, is often misunderstood as only expensive and great wines. Bordeaux has so much more to offer and it remains one of my reference points as a wine critic. Suckling noted during the show that Hong Kong remains the No. 1 export market for Bordeaux, larger than the People’s Republic of China, the United States and the United Kingdom. So when the Hong Kong Tourism Board asked him to organize a masterclass, he chose Bordeaux as a topic that he hoped would shed a new light on France’s premier wine region. The media session was a warm up for the consumer New Bordeaux" online masterclass taking place on November 21, Saturday, at 2 pm in Hong Kong. The wines included Le Blanc Sec de Suduiraut Bordeaux Blanc 2019, Château Giscours Bordeaux Le Rosé de Giscours 2019, and Château Le Rey Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux Les Argileuses 2019. The wines for this Saturday’s online masterclass can be purchased in advance at https://www.klook.com/en-US/activity/50700-james-suckling/. Saturday’s masterclass will be on James’s Instagram and Facebook Live as well as recorded for later viewing. It will be in English and Cantonese. The Hong Kong Tourism Board has taken the 2020 Hong Kong Wine & Dine online due to the pandemic, offering dozens of masterclasses on food and wine. In previous years the event has been one of the largest wine and food events in the world, attracting more than 150,000 people over four days. #hkewinedinefestival Discover Hong Kong #jamessuckling

NEW REPORT: Brunello di Montalcino We just published our new Brunello report looking at the 2016 and 2015 riservas for Brunello di Montalcino. Back-to-back vintages of such great quality are rare, and half of these wines James rated at 95 points or above. Read the report on featuring eight 100-point wines here: www.jamessuckling.com//brunellos-greatest-vintages-ever-2/ . . .... #jamessuckling #drinkgreatwines #LGxJamesSuckling #LGSIGNATURE #winecellar #winestorage #winecritic #ambassador #wine See more