2025 wine writing competition
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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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Thursday 18 September 2025
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Our 2025 wine writing competition – the shortlist
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Thursday 11 September 2025
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Chloe Bargery writes this evocative entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Palomino and its essential role in sherry...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, wine educator Abbie Bennington extols the virtues of Zinfandel. See our...
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Wine writer and Master of Wine student Valeria Tenison writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Welschriesling...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, wine educator and communicator Meg Siobhan writes about a lesser-known hybrid...
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Wine school owner Roz Lawson writes this creative entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Merlot. For more great...
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In this moving entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Sierra Newell writes about her seminal encounter with Blaufränkisch. See...
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Wine educator and communicator Nika S hevela writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about the Catalan grape...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, wine importer Sandra Gomes Rocha writes about Portugal's Touriga Nacional and...
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In this enlightening entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, wine blogger Maria Pozzo-Tonkova writes an ode to Hungary's Csókaszőlő...
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Cathedral musician Jonathan Allsopp writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Syrah. For more fantastic wine writing...
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Technology columnist Steven Norton writes this engaging entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about a COVID-era encounter with Romorantin...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Matt King writes an ode to Riesling, the grape variety that...
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In this moving submission to our 2025 wine writing competition, Erica Landis – author of a highly commended entry to...
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Emily Campeau, winner of our 2018 wine writing competition, writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Palomino...
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Wine buyer Erica Verweijen writes this informative entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Ramisco, a lesser-known Portuguese variety...
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In this poetic entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Malaysia-based IT consultant Iain Moss writes an ode to Gewürztraminer...
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