See Nebbiolo week - a guide for links to all of this week's Nebbiolo articles. Below are my reviews of more than 160 Barolo 2007s and more than 20 Barolo Riserva 2005s, including some...

See also my tasting notes on more than 160 of these immediate 2007 Barolos and more than 20 2005 Barolo Riservas. For more on Nebbiolo, see Nebbiolo week - a guide . . Nebbiolo...

This collection of 44 tasting notes on a very satisfying combination of vintage and denomination marks the beginning of our Nebbiolo Week . From Tuesday to Friday Walter Speller will be...

Update 14 Jun 2011: see here for 44 tasting notes on Barolo 2006. The second part of Nebbiolo Prima , the Nebbiolo blind-tasting marathon, was devoted solidly to Barolo. Armed only...

Much excitement has surrounded the 2004 Barolos, which is why we have seized all opportunities to taste them. You can see our initial set of tasting notes here but since then we have managed to...

Much has already been written about the consistently high quality of Barolo 2004. Not all the wines have been bottled or made available for tasting yet, but the ones I have tasted so far in...

As promised on the forum (initially in this thread ) here are my notes from a blind tasting of Piemontese reds for British Airways. We will be publishing more notes specifically on 2004...

Those anxious for an early take on that most exceptionally hot vintage 2003 might like to take a look at just-drinks.com , though for my taste there is a little too much preoccupation with acid...

As forecast on this site many moons ago (wine news - 12 September 2001 ), Robert Mondavi has acquired the remaining shares in Tenuta dell'Ornellaia, the Bolgheri estate established by Marchese...

The 1997 vintage was exceptional in Piemonte: famously ripe to overripe. It is clear from tasting all these wines that different producers have extremely different ideas about how such grapes...

It is a regrettable fact that, despite Walter Speller's best efforts to inform and educate the British visitors to this website, in the UK most of us are pitifully ignorant about Italian...

During Nebbiolo Prima , I was invited to taste eight vintages of Armando Parusso's Bussia going back to the mythical vintage 1999. I felt it my duty to comply. The Armando Parusso estate is run...

The afternoons during Nebbiolo Prima, after the the blind tastings held in the mornings (see Nebbiolo week - a guide for links to all the tasting notes and related articles), are reserved for...

Although it may seem from my previous reports on the Langhe (see Aldo Conterno and Giuseppe Rinaldi ) that I am trying to cram the recent history of Barolo into the easy dichotomy of 'new...

These tasting notes should be read in conjunction with  A tale of tannin . There are roughly two soil types in the Langhe, formed during the Tortonian and Helvetian epoch, and...