Starting 2025 off Right with Ten Grapes, Ten Wines, Ten Regions You Need to Know about

by Ian D’Agata

By now, your January will be in full swing: the holiday festivities are done with and the new year has begun in earnest. But that doesn’t mean you can’t keep up your good drinking habits, especially at a very dire point in time when wine is seemingly being attacked from all sides (for example, anti-alcohol lobbies, tariffs, bad natural wines so funky and smelly that they would turn off wine forever even the dead).

So here is a new year’s cheer to spending together with friends and family the next twelve months in good spirits (literally) and better company, such as for example your faithful and friendly Ian D’Agata Wine Review articles. This one in particular, which describes ten very different wines for your (hopefully) present and future drinking enjoyment, is especially targeted to enjoying 2025 by way of a little learning, a touch of bewilderment (how in the high heavens did he ever pick that wine?) with sprinklings of surprises and caveats for you to be hopefully amused by. Most of the wines mentioned in this list are readily available in local and international markets, such that you won’t have to go crazy looking for one or more bottles on this list; even better, they aren’t that expensive, so you won’t have to mortgage the house to try one when you do find what you were looking for.

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Ian D’Agata

Ian D’Agata is an internationally famous, multi-award winning author who has been speaking and writing about wine for thirty years. His latest books (Native Wine Grapes of Italy, Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs, Italy’s Grapes and Wines: The definitive Compendium Region by Region and the most recent, Barolo Terroir) are considered the bibles of Italian wine and have received numerous prestigious awards such as the Louis Roederer International Wine Awards “Book of the Year” title, the Gourmand World Book Awards “Best European Wine Book” and being named to the “Best Wine Books of the Year” lists of newspapers and magazines such as the NY Times, the Financial Times and Food & Wine. For eight years, Ian has also been the co-author of the Italy section in Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Book of Wine, the world’s best- selling wine guide with 46 editions to date and over 12 Million copies sold all over the world; he has since been also put in charge of the Alsace and Malta sections.
He is the is currently the President of Ian D’Agata Wine Culture, one of China’s wine education platforms, that includes the Ian D’Agata Wine Review and the Ian D’Agata Wine Academy. Ian is a former staff writer at Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar, Contributing Editor of Decanter, and Senior Editor of Vinous. His writings have always focused on the wines of Italy, France, China and Canada, for which he has won numerous international awards and accolades, including the Comitato Grandi Cru d’Italia “Best Youngest Wine Journalist of Italy” and the “Best Wine Journalist of Italy” awards, as well as Canada’s 2018 VQA award (Out of Ontario section) and 2017 Cuvée Award of Excellence.
Intensely devoted to the research and study of native wine grapes, Ian was officially named in 2015 to Italy’s prestigious Accademia della Vite e del Vino (Italy’s official association of wine academicians, researchers, and university professors) and is currently the Vice President of the Association Internationale des Terroirs.

Contacts: Instagram: @ian_dagata; Email: iandomenicodagata@outlook.it

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