Top-scoring wines of 2021: 100-point wines

Decanter Premium members have had access to fine wine tastings from Decanter experts across 2021.

Below are the 14 wines that received the ‘perfect’ score of 100 points, a tiny percentage of the thousands of wines tasted this year.

Scroll down to see tasting notes and scores for the 14 100-point wines tasted in 2021

The wines come from a range of regions, from Champagne to Washington and Bordeaux to Burgundy.

Some have been part of retrospective vintage tastings – such as Bordeaux 1990s: the complete guide of which two of the 14 100-point wines feature as well as two from Decanter’s first Washington reds vintage report both from the same producer in the Red Mountain AVA.

Some were from special producer vertical tastings – such as one wine from the Château Pontet-Canet: Tasting 10 years of biodynamics and two white wines that appeared in the Tasting five decades of Louis Latour’s Corton-Charlemagne article.

See all the wines tasted this year in score order

A wine from a second New World region also features in this year’s list. The Pinot Noir from New Zealand was given the ultimate accolade as part of one of Decanter magazine’s new features on getting to know a region by looking at a ‘good, better, best’ wine.

Two mature Burgundy wines also appear as well as two Champagnes.

A sweet wine from Bordeaux’s Sauternes appellation completes this year’s list providing perfect-scoring red and white wines in dry, sweet and sparkling styles.

100 point wines of 2021: Tasted by Decanter experts

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