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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
Ben Colvill
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
Nick on restaurants
Nick's most memorable restaurants of 2025
Nick Lander
Sunday 14 December 2025
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Montalcino winegrower Katia Nussbaum on hair dye, tying up young vines, keeping apart within one household and disappearing eggs in...
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In which things become even more personally worrying for Katia. For previous diary entries, click on the Katia's diary tag...
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Katia Nussbaum continues her daily diary under lockdown in Italy with some of her family at her Montalcino estate, San...
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More from Katia Nussbaum in Montalcino as she tries to navigate her way through lockdown. Click on the Katia's diary...
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Montalcino winegrower Katia Nussbaum continues her very personal diary during lockdown at her estate. See days 1 and 2 for...
Tasting articles
A vertical tasting of the most famous wine of the deep south of the Maremma, a companion piece to Saffredi...
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Sassicaia 2017 proves a very different kettle of fish from the 2016. And a preview of the 2018 vintage in...
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The second half of Walter's report on the just-released vintage of Brunello di Montalcino. See also his tasting notes on...
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Walter picks over what’s good and bad about this latest vintage. See his t asting notes on 127 regular bottles...
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Walter's tasting notes on well over 100 regular bottlings of the latest vintage of Brunello should be read in conjunction...
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Carlo Ferrini's own wines are light years from the ones that made his reputation as a winemaking consultant in Italy...
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7 November 2019 We so enjoyed Burton Anderson’s fascinating and wry article that we are republishing it free today. Meanwhile...
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Robin Baum, a retired lawyer looking even more like the classic Englishman against the backdrop of Tuscany, his current stomping...
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We go back in time via a vertical from one of Montalcino's longer-established producers.
This was a fascinating tasting, tracing...
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A southern Tuscan bargain for your delectation – practically wherever you are.
From €12.90, 15.50 Swiss francs, £14.99, CA$25.25, 2,330...
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A clutch of vertical tastings of some special Italian wines, including a Sardinian rarity and a special Vin Santo.
Tim...
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