Forget scores, my favourite way to classify a wine is how many glasses I could drink. Faulty junk? Tip it down the sink. An overly sweet, but fascinating, fortified? A glass is plenty. A spectacular bottle of aged Semillon at the peak of its powers? Pass the bottle, I want it all.
This lineup, then, is a selection of wines from May 2025 where I’d happily have a glass. They’re the drinkers, or indeed the contemplaters, that are worth a glass, although not quite at the ‘why is the bottle empty’ level.
Let’s dive in:
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