WINE SPECTATOR Top 100: My Top 10 Wines & 3 Disappointments
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Wine Spectator has published its annual list of Top 100 wines. Seeing that the majority of the top 10 wines sold out so quickly after their reveal, made me want to take a closer look at this list. And I decided to make my own TOP 10 from the Wine Spectator's Top 100. Unfortunately some of the decisions in the Top 100 list were not completely clear to me, so I will be also sharing my 3 disappointments.
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**CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO:
0:00 Introduction
1:14 Wine 1
2:11 Wine 2
3:01 Wine 3
3:49 Wine 4
4:41 Wine 5
5:46 Wine 6
6:43 Wine 7
7:50 Wine 8 + Disappointment 1
9:01 Wine 9
9:58 Wine 10
10:50 Disappointment 2
11:27 Disappointment 3
Disappointment 3
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Dit wijnoverzichtsvideo heeft mijn interesse gewekt en mijn wijnkennis vergroot. De presentator was deskundig en de selectie van wijnen was uitstekend. Een plezierige kijkervaring!
Thank You! 🙏🏻
I agree with your disappointment with only one champagne on the list. This was a fun video. I look forward to next weeks installment.
Thank You! I had a lot of fun making the video! ✨🥂
Great, another "Top Video", cheers 🥂
It is your channel, it's your personal taste, knowledge and experience what makes it different and unique from others.
Most publications are becoming to look more like wine buying catalogs, rather than actual good reference.
Thank You! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 You are so sweet to show support and share Your thoughts. 🍷 Cheers!
That was fun to watch. Thank you.
Thank You! 🙌 cheers! 🍷✨
Congratulations! Great insights about Wine Spectator's Top 100... Tannat is such an undervalued grape (Uruguay's emblematic grape). I am glad one of Garzon's wines made it to the Top 100... Please, try "Licor de Tannat" from Familia Deicas. For me , it's even better than Port. Cheers!
Thank You for the suggestion. It might be harder to source for me, but I have written it down and will try to get it’ 🙏🏻🍷
Dear Agnes, thanks U for bringing 3 delicius italianv wines in your personal top 10 list . I love all 3 wines but i am Happy to see that taurasi wine deserve your attention . 2 me every tine i open up a bottle of this gourgius wine It Is such a big Surprise and Discovery. ❤ It
Thank You, and happy You enjoyed the list. 🍷 Yes, I was very lucky to see Taurasi! 🍷
Sorry, Agnese, am I missing the link to your Top 10 tasting video? Didn't seem to come up at the end there, but could be my mistake. I love your take on this list, including your disappointments. Thanks for sharing!
Fyi looks like it hasn't gone up yet. Probably is pending upload.
I am sorry, it will be published next Sunday. I really wanted to make it the first video, but it actually took me a lot of time to gather the wines. 😅
Yes, exactly
@@NoSediment No worries at all! I'm really looking forward to it and really appreciate all your effort in tracking down those wines. Thanks for all you do!
I agree. Chenin is unfortunately overlooked. One of my favorite whites. Thanks for the excellent video!
Definitely agree. I think Chenin is fantastic and hope that more producers look into making wine from it.
Thank You! Yes, Chenin Blanc would deserve way more recognition. 🙏🏻
I must confess I should get acquainted with these publications, but since I have limited wine availability and budget, I tend to spend my cash on tastings where I can build up palate experience instead of exploring specific wines. Learning is at this point more valuable than keeping an eye on the trends, but I'm totally okay with it! Cheers
Good strategy
Definitely, I think it is important that we develop our own palate and knowledge, and understanding before we move to read others! Great! 🙌
I subscribed to Wine Spectator because I love their glossary.
👍👍👍
I’m another lover of Chenin Blanc and Albariño too.
They both age magnificently.
Completely agree! 🙌🙌🙌
Could you make a video explaining how to score wine, I
Love your videos
Agree with Scavino as a great Barolo producer. Have had the single vineyard wines as well which are great but the standard Barolo is always on point. Even their Barbera and dolcetto deserve recognition too.
Yes, I agree! And great part about them is they are still relatively affordable. I wonder will that change any time soon.
you rocks girl!!
You too! 🥂 Cheers! 🍾🍾🍾
Love Ch De Plaisance! And of course that Blanc Ronceray! We visited this past May! I was by. Ed not to meet Vanessa! But Elliot was great!
Happy to hear that’ 🙌🙌🙌
My husband picked up a couple of bottles of the Botani at a bargain price. I assumed these would not be great, but I sure was wrong!
He might not get it for the same price ever again. 😳😳😳
Wild sauvignon,greywacke❤❤
Agree! 🙌🙌🙌
no Saperavi on the list… ok I am not in a hurry, I will wait until wine media catches up 😅
100% agree. Dry Saperavi wines from Georgia and Moldova are some of the most unique and delicious wines I've ever tasted.
Not to defend them - but there might be question of availability in the US, why it might not get the recognition it deserves. But I, of course don’t know for sure. 🤷♀️
Hopefully there will be more focus on these countries the next year. They definitely deserve the recognition.
@@NoSediment hmm, good point but I doubt Alpha Estatse Xinomavro is available at Walmart either 😄
You got me! 😅😂
The only reason for me to watch this channel is to look for old guard quality wines that are so good that she is forced to drift away from her different and cheap prejudice.
What You mean by that?
At a glance, Wine Spectator's scores tend towards being 2-4 points higher than the general consensus. Reminds me of Robert Parker a little bit, which I admittedly find a little suspect. There's a lot of commercial drivers in the mass market that aren't always comparatively representative. In fact, I'm starting to wonder if the scorings mean different things depending on which market segment they target.
After tasting wines for close to 40 years, I came to the realization that the "general consensus" tends to be too "stingy" in giving out the points. It seems the people rather save the higher points for wines that they haven't tried, and most likely will never try. After a few decades of scoring wine for my own benefit, I rather give a nice score to a wine that I believe is great to excellent; as such, there are now more 90-95 points wine.
@@Birdylockso That's a matter of personal perspective, which I can appreciate. But when I refer to "general consensus" (which I honestly hesitated to use precisely because it's hazy) I was referring to professional critics. Honestly, what the anonymous private wine drinker has to say about a wine doesn't interest me much. When you're not held accountable, people can and _will_ do whatever they feel like for whatever reason. Which is why when you look at the platforms that measure this "smallest common denominator" it basically turns every wine into the same wine with the same score. So that's how meaningful that is. Meaning it has no meaning at all.
@@QualeQualeson
"what the anonymous private wine drinker has to say about a wine doesn't interest me much"
--I beg to differ. Cellartracker's "private wine drinkers" have consistently provided a great reference for me in wine purchase, oftentimes more accurate than professional critics, who often are all over the place in their reviews of the same wine.
@@Birdylockso IDK Cellartracker and I don't know what you're referring to exactly. I'm referring to the mass platforms where every wine has a 4.2 score or something like that, Vivino I think one is called. I doubt you'll get any references there. My point is that for a reference to have any meaning, you have to know some things about the giver, otherwise he or she might not even have drunk the wine for all you know, which I'm pretty sure happens all the time on those big commercial platforms.
I actually agree with You. I think the commercial drivers are very important for these lists, especially in the US market. But that is a story for a different time. 😅
WS as a publication is starting to show some more diversity compared to 5--10 years ago, but compared to Decanter or other wine publications it is more conservative or traditional. I think that their target demographic has a lot to do with the wines that they rate highly, as perhaps their readers aren't familiar with exotic or unusual wines from faraway places.
It was great to see a Taurasi wine score highly and an Uruguayan Albarino in their Top 100 list is an achievement as well. I agree with your disappointments as well. Greece has some many amazing indigenous varieties, why stick with SB? Gruner Veltliner is Austria's calling card, whereas Riesling is second chair and can you only have one Champagne, on top of that a celebrity rose champagne?! Pfft!
Thank You! 🙏🏻 I think because some many readers trust their judgment, they can surely add some more specific wines from less known regions, grape varieties, etc. It doesn’t need to be a lot! I also might not call them conservative - I think it is more commercial with few exceptions! 😅
I'm also an MW student. What are your criteria for picking your top 10? Have you tried these vintages or are you just agreeing that they deserve recognition?
Both really, as I mentioned in the video! 👍👍👍 for specific wines I know the producer, their style and quality, for example Alpha Estate, just wished too see Greek grape on the list.
I thought princess charlene started her own youtube channel there for a moment
Hahaha, no just me, Agnese from Latvia’ 🍷
I would trust your ranking over Wine Spectator. I think you would be less biased.
Hahaha, thank You, this is quite a compliment. 🥰🙏🏻
paldies for the video, Agnese. first and foremost, as we say in Brazil, "kopš Mozus laikiem (un desmit baušļiem) ir zināms, ka saraksti ir strīdīgi"...
that said, you nailed so many wrong things about this list: 29 American wines but just one fortified wine and one champagne - from a winery that has just started producing champagne and is owned by a celebrity; they praise Aglianico but don't care about Greek grapes and prefer to choose a Sauvignon Blanc from Greece; many wines from big producers but nothing much off the beaten path.
I won't be changing a single hair in my wine buying habits because of this list - maybe just skip those bottles whose prices will soar after becoming famous and sought-after.
after all this rant, here's a suggestion: why don't you make a video with your 10 (or 20) favourite wines this year? I guess it would be much more interesting than the WS list. and you know that wines have no score, they have stories behind them - so your list would probably consider it and how you got into these wines...
Wow, thank You for such an insightful comment. 🙏🏻 and thank You for including words in Latvian, it is so sweet of You. 🙏🏻 I don’t feel that my top wines would matter, I am just a student and a still learning about wine! 🍷
@@NoSediment the fact that you're "just a student", as you described yourself, is precisely what makes it matter! being a student (or behaving like one) makes you feel excited about the wines you try for the first time, the ones no one told you about, the ones you shared with friends viewing the Paramount Pictures' mountains from the Langhe, and so on. a good wine is the one that makes you feel things, not the one that makes you do the maths for a scoreboard.
what are the stories behind the WS list? probably much less exciting than our personal journeys. the only professional critic I pay attention to (initials JR) doesn't hide her excitement when she finds a bottle that twists and turns her thoughts - I hope you have read her "Confessions of a Wine Lover" book.
all this talk is just to say that I'd rather have a top 10 "no sediment, all sentiment", in any order, than a "professional" top 100 which may have been boo$ted by $ome $trange factor$...
Bravo 👏 👏 I agree that 🎉
Thank You! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I've been buying Botani for years. It used to be vey cheap,
Has it seen the increase already?
@@NoSediment Yes, it's been creeping up. Same with the red. It's still reasonable in the Velez-Malag region where it's produced.
Hi Agnes! Are you of Hungarian origin?
Hi! 👋 No, I am not. I am from Latvia 🇱🇻 Nordics!
If only one fortified wine could make it on the list, I'm happy it was Taylor's 20-year tawny.
How much of a difference does 10 years make? I really enjoyed the 10 year tawnies I've tried but haven't made the jump to the higher price points.
@yriafehtivan I enjoy 10-yr tawnies, but find the 20s have a much more pronounced caramel, toffee, and oak characteristic. This comes at a fairly modest price increase over the 10s. The 30, 40, and even 50 year old tawny ports are quite outstanding, but come at a much greater price. The 20 is the sweet spot of the QPR. The tawny ports are blends of a variety of vintages for an average age of the year on the bottle. Each port house has a distinctive style they try to achieve and be consistent with. If possible, you should give the 20 a try and see if it's worth it to you. Cheers!
What was very interesting to me, and I only recently realised this -> tawny port with age indication doesn’t need to be aged for 10 years, or average 10 years, etc, It must organolepticly be AS 10YO or 20YO. Therefore, for me 20 year usually will show more integration and more tertiary aromas, which I love in Port wines. 🍷
Yes, it is a nice wine! At least one made it. 🙏🏻
Wine Spectator makes no sense. There are tons of albariños from Spain and Portugal that I would bet my life they are better than the Uruguayan one.
It is not that bad, I think there are Portugal and Spanish Alvarinho/Albariño on the list. I just decided to highlight the Uruguayan wine. 🧐
You are absolutely right.
Yes, there is no objective best. It’s always personal tastes and professional agendas. Enjoy!
Joel Gott 12$ Sauvignon Blanc has no right being on the top 100 list let alone being so high on the list.
I think that is a wine that can go on the top budget wine / value wine list. Seeing it on the list beating out spectacular and actually interesting wines makes it feel like they bought their way into the list. It's basic , it's boring, it's uninteresting, you've had it and wines just like it a million times over. It offers nothing unique or interesting. It is quite literally, an ok wine for 12 dollars and nothing else.
Something about being in the high 30s on the list with a 91 point rating , beating literal other wines that scored higher by the same critic. Idk. Whatever. I think there is a little something going on under the table between WS and Joel Gott over here lmao.
I would probably disagree. I don’t like when lists are created only for the rich and famous. And expensive wines SHOULD DELIVER. If You pay premium price, You expect premium quality. And I love to see wines that outperform on their price category, and it also gives people who don’t feel comfortable spending 3digit numbers for their bottle of wine, something to choose from and a great insight! 💪
@@NoSediment You're right, this mass produced super market wine is definitely more unique than all the other amazing 12$ bottles of wine you can find around this world.
This decision was lazy and felt paid for.
Does Wine Spectator really reward the most deserving wines? Think that in 40 years I had never noticed it, apart from rare excellences I believe they base their extraordinary scores on something else entirely. You're starting to be an adult, naivety is not good company. Of your Top I only know the Italians and you don't seem to have been very courageous, the Radici is excellent every year, a true institution, the basic Barolo from Scavino is really a Barolo for tourists but it has a beautiful cellar... Regarding the wines of Antinori, what can I say, have you perhaps been a guest in one of his estates?? 👋
You sound slightly sad. 😪 I actually say in the video, that I have been tasting the very same wine at the estate and I don’t see anything particularly wrong with that. There are nicer and more intelligent ways to create a discussion. 🧐
@@NoSediment Just as there are nicer and more intelligent wines to speak well of. 🤷♂️