Wines of the year 2025, part one, 93 point wines

Another active year for wine events and tastings in 2025. Using a representative sample of wines I tasted, my average score is ~91.5 with a standard deviation of roughly three, which means around - or a bit less than - two thirds of the wines I score would fall in the 89-94 point range - this is a subjective scoring method widely used and accepted by others. 

Last year I listed my top 200 wines in order of merit. This time I will start the ball rolling with wines I subjectively rated 93 points, moving upwards from there. These are high calibre wines in my opinion - there were a lot of excellent wines I scored 92 points in 2025, which did not make the cut. 

In this initial list there are 88 wines I rated 93 points in order of the approximate time of the year I drank them and not on relative merit. Bordeaux accounted for 28 wines or 32% of the total dominating the field followed by Piedmont 14 (16%), Burgundy 12 (14%), Rhone ten (11%), Champagne six (7%), Tuscany five (6%) and various others.