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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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See also members' forum . Gianfranco Soldera and his daughter Monica came to the UK recently under the auspices of...
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Is it just me who finds today’s email from London’s Fine & Rare Wines touting 'The 9th Best Wine in...
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More vintage reports roll in. Here’s one from Sesti of Montalcino in Tuscany and another, more official one from Oregon...
Wines of the week
find this wine – about 20 euros in Italy and Germany, £25 in the UK I’m very sorry that my...
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21 may: My apologies. In my haste to fly off to Washington DC for 24 hours to preview the 3rd...
Tasting articles
As I have already written (see inside information), 1999 seems to me to be an absolutely outstanding vintage for Brunello...
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Piero Antinori of the venerable eponymous Tuscan merchant has consistently been in the vanguard of developments in the Italian wine...
Tasting articles
These regular 1997 Brunellos were tasted in London in March 2002. They were noticeably riper than the 1998s (see my...
Tasting articles
See also my tasting notes on the 1997s. The 1998 vintage in Montalcino is sandwiched between two much better years...
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Andrea Franchetti sent me this account of the beginnings of this idiosyncratic southern Tuscan estate and I thought it a...
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The famous Tenuta San Guido at Bolgheri on the Tuscan coast which produces Sassicaia has launched an earlier-maturing, less expensive...
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The Frescobaldi are certainly on the march, what with their forthcoming involvement in Ornellaia with partner Robert Mondavi of California...
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As forecast on this site many moons ago (wine news – 11 September 2001), Robert Mondavi has acquired the remaining...
Tasting articles
For some background to this tasting, see a Tuscan eccentric. Tenuta Di Trinoro 1997 (magnum) 18.5 Drink 2002-2008 Very deep...
Tasting articles
Visitors to this site know that Lodovico Antinori's Bolgheri estate (born in the early 1980s just down the road from...
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Chianti Classico has changed out of all recognition in the last few years – certainly in terms of self-perception and...
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