Our 2025 wine writing competition
Our 2025 Wine Writing Competition brought in a total of 309 entries – all fascinating takes on the competition theme ‘an ode to a grape variety’. We published 73 of the best entries, which you can find below, along with information on who won in both the readers’ and judges’ categories. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!
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Our 2025 wine writing competition – the winners
Announcing the winners, runners-up and highly commended authors from our record-breaking 2025 wine writing competition. See this competition guide to read all 73 published entries. The 2025 wine writing competition...
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Recently published competition entries
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In this brief but clever entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, sommelier Maria Banson writes a haiku about Chardonnay...
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Joseph Rosenfeld writes this passionate entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Zibibbo – Muscat of Alexandria's Sicilian alter...
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Australian winemaker Raquel Jones writes this lyrical entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Tempranillo. See this guide to...
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Sommelier Oliver Carr writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about the virtues of Chenin Blanc. To read...
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In this evocative entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Shishir Baxi writes about Riesling and its affinity with India's...
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Nathan Zachary writes this creative entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Greece's Moschofilero. See the guide to our...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Maura King writes about an obscure Balkan grape variety: Probus. See...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, wine journalist Andrew Neather writes an ode to Greece's Xinomavro. Check...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Giovanni Di Guardo writes about Nerello Mascalese, a distinctive grape variety...
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Ricard Giner-Sariola writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Tempranillo. See the guide to our competition for...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, winemaker Pietro Buttitta writes about the trials and tribulations of growing...
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Ukrainian wine specialist Daria Antonenko writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Ukraine's Telti-Kuruk. See this guide...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, chemical engineer and oenologist Katerina Mylona writes this ode to Greece's...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Niall Rush writes about the trials and rewards of loving Pinot...
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In this poetic entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos writes an ode to Assyrtiko. See our competition...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Victoria Vigliotti writes about her revelatory encounter with Sangiovese. See this...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Richard Waterton writes a passionate ode to Sicily's Frappato. Too see...
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Professor Monique Bell writes this lyrical entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Scuppernong, a distinctive American grape variety...
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Makayla Moore writes this clever entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about an encounter with Tempranillo. See the guide...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, sommelier Maryna Revkova writes a moving ode to a Ukrainian grape...