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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
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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
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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From €19.80, 21.90 Swiss francs, £20, 227.90 Norwegian krone, CA$42.95, $34.99, 239 Danish krone, AU$62 Find this wine Chianti Classico...
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What I did on my holidays... Nick and I sneaked off from this year's mammoth task of updating the World...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published in the Financial Times. A week in Tuscany last month was very beautiful...
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While the Consorzio of Chianti Classico has put its entire weight behind the promotion of Gran Selezione (about which I...
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From $19.99, 125 Danish krone, €17.50, £18, 2,380 Japanese yen, NZ$44.99 Find this wine Having spent a few days immersed...
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I have already written in depth about the 2015 vintage in Montalcino, a year that producers throughout Italy are very...
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This is the second, highly opinionated report by Marcelo Retamal, winemaker for De Martino in Chile, on his most recent...
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8 August 2017 I have just received this report from Franchetti on this year's exceptionally dry growing season in Tuscany...
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See my overview Brunello 2012 – majesty without mass. Our second Brunello Night at Caravan King's Cross in London seems...
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At the end of last year, the team from Ornellaia, the luxurious Supertuscan estate in Bolgheri, came to London to...
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We thought that those Purple Pagers wondering whether to take advantage of our earlybird ticket offer for Brunello Night in...
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Looking back at the 2012 vintage in Italy I wouldn’t immediately declare this hot and very small vintage, the smallest...
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From €11.90, £14.95, 16.50 Swiss francs, $16.99, CA$22.40, 2,494 yen Find this wine When in 1998 Paolo Baratta, former Italian...
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Being able to show a flight of 11 consecutive vintages of Brunello in a region with so many newcomers and...
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From £14.99, €15.35, $20, 1,857 yen, AU$29.99 Find this wine ‘Energy’ may sound odd, or pretentious, in a tasting note...
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