Our 2025 wine writing competition
Vote for your favourite shortlisted competition entry here! Deadline for voting is midnight UK time on Monday 15 September.
We've had a record-breaking 309 entries to this year's competition on the theme 'An ode to a grape variety'. We're publishing the best of those entries throughout the summer. The 20 most recently published ones can be found below. Go to our competition guide to see the complete list.
About the competition
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Our 2025 wine writing competition – the winners
Announcing the winners, runners-up and highly commended authors from our record-breaking 2025 wine writing competition. See this competition guide to read all 73 published entries. The 2025 wine writing competition...
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Thursday 18 September 2025
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Our 2025 wine writing competition – the shortlist
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Thursday 11 September 2025
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Recently published competition entries
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In this brief but clever entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, sommelier Maria Banson writes a haiku about Chardonnay...
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Joseph Rosenfeld writes this passionate entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Zibibbo – Muscat of Alexandria's Sicilian alter...
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Australian winemaker Raquel Jones writes this lyrical entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Tempranillo. See this guide to...
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Sommelier Oliver Carr writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about the virtues of Chenin Blanc. To read...
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In this evocative entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Shishir Baxi writes about Riesling and its affinity with India's...
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Nathan Zachary writes this creative entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Greece's Moschofilero. See the guide to our...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Maura King writes about an obscure Balkan grape variety: Probus. See...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, wine journalist Andrew Neather writes an ode to Greece's Xinomavro. Check...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Giovanni Di Guardo writes about Nerello Mascalese, a distinctive grape variety...
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Ricard Giner-Sariola writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Tempranillo. See the guide to our competition for...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, winemaker Pietro Buttitta writes about the trials and tribulations of growing...
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Ukrainian wine specialist Daria Antonenko writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Ukraine's Telti-Kuruk. See this guide...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, chemical engineer and oenologist Katerina Mylona writes this ode to Greece's...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Niall Rush writes about the trials and rewards of loving Pinot...
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In this poetic entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos writes an ode to Assyrtiko. See our competition...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Victoria Vigliotti writes about her revelatory encounter with Sangiovese. See this...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, Richard Waterton writes a passionate ode to Sicily's Frappato. Too see...
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Professor Monique Bell writes this lyrical entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Scuppernong, a distinctive American grape variety...
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Makayla Moore writes this clever entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about an encounter with Tempranillo. See the guide...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, sommelier Maryna Revkova writes a moving ode to a Ukrainian grape...