Smith & Hooper Merlot 2022

14 more wines worth a glass this May 2025

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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Andrew Graham was once voted the 23rd most trusted wine critic on the planet. A WCA Journalism Young Gun now old hack with 25yrs as a buyer, judge, journalist, marketer and too much more.