2025, a wine year in pictures

Here’s a selection of pictures from 2025. Quite a year.

January began with the Cool Climate wine summit in Copenhagen
January: Podcasting with Emily and Doug
February, in the Niepoort cellars talking about the new wines of Jerez
February: in Porto for Simplemente Vinho
February: the NZ Pinot symposium in Christchurch
February: Central Otago
February: North Canterbury, NZ
February: in LA, visiting Abe Schoener
March: judging the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards in Macau
March: visiting Slovenia’s top wineries
March: Slovenia
April: filming in the UK, here at Everflyht
April, filming in the Rheingau, Germany
April: Rhône, Côte-Rôtie
April: Rhône, Hermitage
April: International Wine Challenge, under new ownership!
May: Sublime wine festival, Berlin
May: in Lisbon for Vinho de Casa
May, awarded Wines of Portugal personality of the year in Viseu
June: Glou Glou festival, Coimbra, Portugal
June, Margate
June: in London, Hampstead Heath
June: Bairrada with Wine Transmission
June: Okanagan, Canada
June: Roussillon
July: at home
July: rocks and roots with Alkina, Barossa
July: visiting Henschke
July: with Doug and Emily, podcasting, Ventnor
July: Chenin celebration in the Loire, here visiting Huet
July: good folk, Angers, Chenin celebration
May: Amsterdam for lecturing
July: McLaren Vale
August: Norfolk coast
September: Kastro, Sifnos, Greece
September: winning at the 67 Pall Mall awards
September: Aya Estate winery opening, Bulgaria
September: Hungarian wine summit
October: Bologna
October: Parma
November: Chile
November: amphora wine day, Alentejo
November: visiting Vinho Verde
November, VinNatur wine festival, Paris
November: Alentejo tour
November: Gonzalez Bastias, Chile
December: Living Vineyards tour with Kelly Mulville in the Mosel
December: in Champagene looking at regenerative farming with Perrier-Jouët