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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
Book reviews
The Smart Traveller's Wine Guides – book reviews
Six sleek guides for wine lovers wanting on-the-ground advice on what and where to drink and eat. The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guides Bordeaux, by Georgie Hindle – ISBN 9781917084512 Napa...
Ben Colvill
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
Nick on restaurants
Nick's most memorable restaurants of 2025
An annual round-up of gastronomic pleasure. Above, the German island of Sylt which provided Nick with an excess of it in July 2025. At this time of year I like...
Nick Lander
Sunday 14 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Not so long ago the Maremma, the coastal strip that runs south of Livorno all the way down to Lazio...
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This year’s en primeur tastings described in Chianti Classico 2012 – climate-change wines also saw the release of the 2011...
Tasting articles
Chianti Classico's 2012 vintage was the produce of one of the hottest summers ever to be recorded, but when I...
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This selection of tasting notes is thanks mostly to British importer Armit, whose Italians could easily furnish a national gallery...
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Each February during the annual en primeur tastings organised throughout Tuscany, the organisers in Montalcino and Chianti Classico always prepare...
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At the same time as my second tranche of tastings of Brunello di Montalcino 2009, I also had a look...
Don't quote me
See also Walter's wine-by-wine review of the just-released 2009 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino and the 2008 Riservas, including a...
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As so often on JancisRobinson.com, there are times of year when, poor things, we suffer a fine-wine logjam. As a...
Tasting articles
See also a recent collection of reviews of Ornellaia's neighbour and prototype Sassicaia.
Ornellaia celebrated the release of their 25th...
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I spent a couple of magical days on the Tuscan coast recently, and describe the high point in Sassicaia in...
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The Antique Wine Company's AWC Wine Academy in London is offering members of our Purple Pages an exclusive discount on...
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Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi in Panzano reports on the last two vintages in Chianti Classico – and gives his...
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After the comments made by Franco Soldera in one of Italy's most important newspapers, Corriere della Sera, on 26 March...
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Another titbit for those entirely uninterested in Bordeaux.... While Vino Nobile di Montepulciano in general seems a little inert of...
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If you can’t say anything nice… That is a little how I felt after having tasted the Vino Nobile di...
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Franco Biondi Santi, arguably Montalcino's most iconic producer, has died today at the age of 91. The sad news broke...
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