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Brunello 2025 – unpredictable and challenging
Brunello farmers never knew what nature would throw at them next in 2025. Yet somehow they managed, even claiming that the vintage is better than 2024. Above, the view from...
Walter Speller
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Bordeaux 2025 harvest report
James Lawther MW
Thursday 9 October 2025
• 1 min read
Wine news in 5
Phylloxera hits the Canaries, US alcohol consumption plummets, harvest 2025 starts
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 15 August 2025
• 1 min read
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Gavin Quinney presents his final report on the most recent Bordeaux vintage. See also Bordeaux 2019 half-term report and Bordeaux...
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Reports from around the region. Is it as good as 2016? Seen here Walter's November 2019 view of the alps...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc in the Entre-Deux-Mers provides us with his typically thorough and well-illustrated report on the latest...
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A version of this survey of the 2019 northern-hemisphere vintage is published by the Financial Times. See this guide to...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc puts the vintage soon to be shown en primeur into perspective, and provides the customary...
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No shortage of enthusiasm for 2018 from our German specialist.
It would probably be the understatement of the year to...
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Graham and his son Andrew Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d'Albas in Minervois sent this report written on the eve of...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc has been hard at work to share extraordinary pictures of the 2017 vintage in Bordeaux...
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The 2017 vintage in Germany broke not just one record but three. In many regions it was not only the...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc gives us this extremely comprehensive report on a particularly heterogeneous vintage. Bordeaux 2017 will go...
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For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016 vintage in Germany, see this guide.
The 2016 vintage in...
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Graham Nutter, proprietor of the Minervois property Ch St Jacques d'Albas, seen here in glorious autumn foliage, tells us what...
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12 May 2016 Since our first big collection of tasting notes on Germany's exceptional 2015 vintage is published this week...
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Graham Nutter (pictured below), owner of Laure-Minervois property St Jacques d’Albas (pictured) and provider of all the Lafons and Coches...
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This year will definitely not go down as another vintage of the century in Germany. Too cold and too wet...
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Graham Nutter of Ch St Jacques d'Albas sent us this report on this year's harvest in his part of the...
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