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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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Brunello 2021 – the single-vineyard and selezione wines
The wines Brunello producers are most proud of from the 2021 vintage, assessed. See also Walter’s overview of the vintage and reviews of the Brunello Classicos. Ripe grapes in San...
Walter Speller
Tuesday 2 December 2025
• 6 min read
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Brunello 2021 – the estate wines
Walter Speller
Monday 1 December 2025
• 9 min read
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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...
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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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For anyone in Montalcino fearing a dull Easter, Gianfranco Soldera of Case Basse (pictured here by Jon Wyand) had a...
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Just before the annual Tuscan en primeur tastings (on which I will report in detail later this week) last February...
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