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Jancis's diary – October 2025
Two fabulous weekends, and a lot of tasting. The Tuscan weekend is exemplified by the outdoor Sunday lunch pictured above (unthinkable in London). I write this just before taking off...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 3 November 2025
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A cornucopia of Chianti Classico
Jancis Robinson
Friday 17 October 2025
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While the Consorzio of Chianti Classico has put its entire weight behind the promotion of Gran Selezione (about which I...
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See Chianti Classico subzones vindicated, also published today. I am delighted to report that more and more wines from Chianti...
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In the invitation to this tasting, the first ever held in London by the Union des Gens de Métier, the...
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Diligent readers will be familiar with my arguments in favour of named subzones on Chianti Classico labels, and with the...
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See also Needless Chianti Classico bashing. Last February, as though on Groundhog Day, I found myself once again in the...
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See also Groundhog Day – new Chianti Classico releases. Nowadays it is fashionable to talk about Chianti Classico as ‘unfashionable’...
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See also Castello di Ama – an exclusive vertical and today's review of Liberty Wines' Tuscans.
This year the wine...
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I owe much to the brilliantly run literacy charity Room to Read, including the chance to taste every vintage of...
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Read this in conjunction with Walter's earlier article Chianti Classico's unsung bargains – 2014 and 2013 as well as today's...
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See also Chianti Classico Riserva's struggle for almost one hundred reviews of Riserva and Gran Selezione wines. And for the...
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Before sharing his hundreds of tasting notes on the latest wines from this great-value region, Walter reports on significant developments...
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Jancis writes At JancisRobinson.com we are all too aware that we in the UK are years behind the American market...
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From €19.50, £21.60, $35 Find this wine I first tasted this wine in January of this year but its arrival...
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With the precision of a Swiss clock, each February the Consorzio of Chianti Classico presents in Florence the new vintages...
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From €20.67, $21.99, £14.95, 1,490 roubles, AU$48 Find the Riecine Find the Fèlsina Berardenga Find the Fontodi I strongly believe...
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Michael Schmelzer, who runs the Chianti Classico estate Monte Bernardi in Panzano, writes: When it first became official that the...
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