James Suckling rated Wines

James Suckling is the best-known US wine critic after Robert Parker. The former Senior Editor and European Bureau Chief of Wine Spectator is considered an influential connoisseur and, like Parker, is a career changer who studied political science and journalism at Utah State University. He then worked his way up as a journalist and came to wine through his father. In 1981, he signed on with Wine Spectator, which at the time was only a local publication with 800 subscribers.