James Suckling
James Suckling, 63, is one of today’s leading wine critics whose reviews are read and respected by wine lovers, serious wine collectors, and the wine trade worldwide. He is chairman and editor of JamesSuckling.com, the wine media platform and events company with offices in Hong Kong.
Since starting his career, James estimates he has tasted and rated close to 250,000 wines. Last year he and his team of tasters rated more than 18,000 wines. This year they should rate almost 25,000. His website provides more than 150,000 wine ratings at the moment. They currently rate more than 2,000 wines a month.
JamesSuckling.com currently has more than 600,000 unique visitors to its website per year. About 50 percent is North American. It has approximately 5 million followers, with coverage from its website, social media, newsletters (Chinese, Korean, Thai and English), Prestige magazine in Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, Noblesse magazine in Korea and China, WeChat and Weibo. James is one of the largest wine influencers on Instagram with 300,000-plus followers.
