PHILIPPE DHALLUIN: WINEMAKER OF THE DECADE

To celebrate a decade of JamesSuckling.com, this year we gave three special one-off awards to the wine, winery and winemaker of the past decade. Philippe Dhalluin was selected as the JamesSuckling.com Winemaker of the Decade. From the 2010 Château Mouton Rothschild in Bordeaux and 2013 Opus in Napa Valley to Almaviva 2015 and 2017 in Chile, Dhalluin has probably made more perfectly rated wines than any other person of his generation. He makes the wines of Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Clerc Milon, Château d’Armailhac, Domaine de Baronarques in France, as well as Almaviva in Chile and Opus One in Napa Valley. He also contributes to winemaking at Chile’s Escudo Rojo as well as Bordeaux’s Sauternes estate of Cháteau Coutet. As Dhalluin himself says, his job is to manage various estates, but it’s the wine in the glass that is his passion, and that’s also what makes him the JamesSuckling.com Winemaker of the Decade.