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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
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The Smart Traveller's Wine Guides – book reviews
Ben Colvill
Monday 22 December 2025
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Nick Lander
Sunday 14 December 2025
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The anteprima, or en primeur, tasting of Chianti Rufina last month can be considered either the very first or the...
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Update 13 Jun 2011: another 16 ha is added to Virginie Sacery's holdings... The news in 2008 that Avignonesi, arguably...
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While Florence recently played host to the first annual Wine Town Festival, celebrating the great wine capitals of the world...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
In the last few weeks I...
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Any time spent in Italy is a bonus and a few days earlier this month taught me a lot, not...
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The ambitious aim of the European Union to organise all of Europe's wine regions into a single system more or...
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It's not just Bordeaux that presents its latest vintage for assessment, although the Tuscans take a little more time about...
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Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi in Panzano sends this report on last year's growing season. He and his American-German family...
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The 2007 vintage in Montepulciano, less clement than for Chianti Classico in general, showed wines that seemed to struggle with...
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The next stop on February's en primeur tastings in Tuscany, beginning with Chianti Classico, was Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. This...
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The dinner menu at Le Café Anglais on Monday 8 Mar was headed A Night in Panzano. But the more...
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Figures supplied by the Chianti Classico Consorzio clearly imply some sort of stabilisation in exports, where decline in the most...
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See below for 117 tasting notes, many of them enthusiastic, on these first showings of these two superior vintages. The...
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As I signposted in New sweet white from Ornellaia, Bolgheri grows a mind-boggling range of grape varieties. Finding Viognier, Sauvignon...
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One of the observations made in Sassacaia – the background understatements is that the Bolgheri DOC is getting too big...
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