James Suckling Leaves Wine Spectator

James Suckling (Twitter), who helped found Wine Spectator and was one of its most recognized faced has left the magazine:

Speaking from Los Angeles, the highly-respected critic told decanter.com he left the magazine which he helped found to 'pursue other projects'.

'You get to a point where you say “Now what?” I worked at Spectator for 30 years and it's been great. Now I've got some cool projects for the future.'

From the Decanter article it appears that Wine Spectator is a little bitter:

He would also not be drawn on the extraordinarily ungracious nature of his send-off from Wine Spectator, by which his former boss Marvin Shanken said he would be missed, but not that much: indeed, things would actually improve.

I have enjoyed James' writings over the years, especially his En Primeurs coverage. I look forward to seeing what he has planned for the future.