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Gregg SegalGetty Images When New York’s Le Bernardin reopened for indoor dining, all too briefly, this past fall, sommelier Aldo Sohm returned from a monthslong sojourn in Austria and Germany, where he had reacquainted himself with the pleasures of riesling, a white wine made from the eponymous grape. “People are so passionate about it there,” the World’s Best Sommelier of 2008 told me. The same cannot be said of Americans, however, who have been resistant to the charms of rieslings, especially those from Germany. But not long after his return, Sohm hosted a dinner for the Commander...

Share After reviewing some 18,000 wines, James Suckling and his team reveal their selection of the top 10 wines of 2020. It’s been a tough year for all of us and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. But a glass of terrific-quality wine can certainly help us through this crazy time. And we at JamesSuckling.com did our very best to cover the wine world this year and find some amazing bottles. We managed to rate almost 18,000 wines since our last Top 100 list was published in November 2019. I’ve been in Hong Kong reviewing wines in my tasting room at my wife’s restaurant/wine ba...