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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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How do the increasing number of non-French wines now being sold in Bordeaux measure up to the wines the Bordeaux...
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A version of this article about Bolgheri is published by the Financial Times. See also Bolgheri – the tasting notes...
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19 September 2019 See my tasting notes on Sassicaia 2016 and Guidalberto 2017.
13 September 2019 Four of the Tuscan...
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Swedish Siena resident Tina Johannson shares her address book. See this guide to all the entries in our travel writing...
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A detailed look at one of Tuscany's most distinctive, if varied, wines. Umbria specialises in it too. While Walter was...
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4 April 2019 In our series of weekly dives into the archives we are republishing this account of two Maremma...
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A preview of Rosso di Montalcino 2017s supplemented by reviews of some late-released 2016s. Walter took this picture from Biondi...
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Walter finds that Chianti Classico Riserva is still more convincing than Gran Selezione, and reports on a possible vineyard classification...
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Walter unpicks the 2017 Chianti Classicos and enjoys many a 2016. See also Chianti Classico Collezione 2019 – Riserva and...
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Tim Jackson MW is impressed by the latest release from Tenuta San Guido. It strikes me that real, true haute...
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21 February 2019 We are republishing this article in our Throwback Thursday series as a mark of respect for Gianfranco...
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An appreciation of Gianfranco Soldera of Case Basse. Gianfranco Soldera, 82, left this world last Saturday in Montalcino. He had...
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Walter is pretty pleased by the 2016 vintage in Montalcino so far. At the beginning of this year the Consorzio...
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The second part of Walter’s two-part exposition of what Tuscany’s core wine region has to offer today. You can taste...
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The first part of Walter’s two-part survey of recent changes in Tuscany’s emblematic wine region. See Chianti Classico's return to...
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Jancis highlights the progress made in Tuscany's emblematic wine region. A version of this article is published by the Financial...
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