Last summer, I wrote this blog post about former Wine Spectator senior editor JamesSuckling, his departure from the magazine, and whether wine ratings would ever again matter.
Whether you realized it or not with every glass you ordered or bottle you bought, particularly in the past decade as American wine consumption and collection boomed, few critics have mattered more than JamesSuckling.
The wine critic JamesSuckling, a veteran Bordeaux expert who moderated the tasting in Bridgehampton, gave each wine 100 points and compared the pair to the heralded 2009 and 2010, the younger wine being the sexpot in that pair.