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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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Federico Vincenzi sent me the following results of a blind tasting of the 2005 vintage from various smaller but locally...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes.
The Chianti Rufina zone is often overlooked, being...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. Isole e Olena, two adjacent clusters of old...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The Manettis have owned this 70 hectare estate...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. This highly regarded estate is so far south...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The Costanti estate is just outside the town...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. See also my Argiano notes for an explanation...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. This week and next I’ll be publishing notes...
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In the second of our series of vertical tastings of significant Italian wines (s ee details of our Italian Wine...
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There's nothing new or remarkable about planting Bordeaux...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. There’s nothing new or remarkable about planting Bordeaux...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See details of our Italian Wine...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The following 40-odd current Chianti Classicos, mostly Riservas...
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Find this wine Here’s another great-value Italian red – and much more sophisticated and rewarding for the medium term that...
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Here are notes on more than 50 Brunello di Montalcino Riservas from the decidedly promising 2001 vintage, a follow up...
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Find this wine En route to Bordeaux last week I spent a day at Vinitaly, the giant wine fair held...
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