USA Wine Ratings welcomes Susan R Lin Master of Wine, Head of Wine Expertise for online fine wine retailer Belmont Wine Exchange in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A current Panel Chair for the Decanter World Wine Awards, Rod is an enthusiastic and committed educator, marketer, and public speaker on wine. We are pleased to have him join the USA Wine Ratings.

Tim Hanni has been a judge for USA Wine Ratings since its foundation and will join other leading wine buyers and masters of wine this July in San Francisco where USA Wine Ratings is set to take place.

California-based Master of Wine and industry professional with over twenty years of experience in wine production, sales, and education will strengthen the judging panel at USA Wine Ratings.

Mollie Battenhouse MW, National Director of Wine Education at Jackson Family Wines and also a partner at Wine Ring joins the judging panel at the 2021 USA Wine Ratings.

Tim Marson is a master of wine from the USA and currently working as a senior buyer at wine.com.

"To assess a wine on not only quality but also its package, design, and price is so important," Ashley Hausman Judge at the 2021 USA Wine Ratings.

As the clock ticks down on entries for the 2021 USA Wine Ratings competition - early bird pricing ends on April 30 - we talk to Bob Paulinski MW about his wide ranging career as a wine buyer and why he is happy to be a judge in the event.

Masters of Wine, sommeliers and top retailer and restaurant wine buyers choose the best wines in the world based on quality, value for money, and what they look like.

Australia’s 2015 Anubis Cabernet Sauvignon made by Levrier Wines takes the ‘wine of the year’ award with a top score of 96 points.