Lastly, Senior Editor Zekun Shuai is again in Beijing and tasting the most recent releases of Chinese language wines. Among the many standouts had been the youthful and floral Chateau Rong Yuan Mei Syrah Ningxia Hong Fan Yin 容园美酒庄西拉 2020, which got here from a difficult classic but flourished, delivering glorious focus with correct construction and positive tannins, and the Chateau H.Y.R.H Malbec Ningxia Mountain Wave 海悦仁和酒庄一山一水珍藏马尔贝克 2020 a malbec that exhibits a fruity, natural freshness with a positive, mineral edge.
Essentially the most spectacular choices from China, although, got here from the northwestern nook of Yunnan province close to the Tibetan border, the place the Xiao Ling vineyard produces perfumed, acid-driven cabernet sauvignon and merlots from elevated vineyards between 2,000 to 2,400 meters in altitude, sourcing grapes from greater than eight villages. The most effective of those grapes made Xiao Ling’s cabernet-merlot Grand Vin mix – the Xiao Ling Cizhong霄岭 2019 and Xiao Ling Cizhong 霄岭 2020, that are each remarkably constant in high quality, with the 2019 recent and juicy and the 2020 crunchier and extra succulent.
In all, we rated 2,321 wines throughout November, from Argentina, Australia, Austria, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and the US. That brings us to effectively over 30,000 wines tasted throughout 2022, and we nonetheless have December to go! We’ll hold rolling out the remainder of our Prime 100 experiences within the meantime, and produce you our last tasting tally as soon as we get to the tip of this lengthy however rewarding and all the time scrumptious 12 months.
– Vince Morkri, Managing Editor
The checklist of wines beneath is comprised of bottles tasted and rated throughout November by James Suckling and the opposite tasters at JamesSuckling.com. They embrace lots of the newest releases and a few not but obtainable in the marketplace however which shall be obtainable quickly.
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