Below is a guide to this week's collection of Nebbiolo gems that Walter Speller, our Italian expert (captured in the pensive photo on the left by Maurizio Gjivovich), has been writing for us....

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...

The commune of Barbaresco, which was the focus of day one and much of the morning of day two of the four-day Nebbiolo Prima tastings in Piemonte has traditionally been described as more...

See these resulting tasting notes: Roero 2007s and 2006 Riservas Barbaresco 2007s and 2005 Riservas    Barolo 2006 and 2004 Riservas Nebbiolo Prima is a four-day immersion in...

If Pinot Noir is the world's most tantalising grape, Nebbiolo runs it a close second - for very similar reasons. While the red burgundy grape has been extremely unwilling to travel happily from its...

Paul Howard on www.winealchemy.com reports on Lombardy's most glorious red wine region. See also his tasting notes . A couple of years ago a glass of red wine slid before me...

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...

I have had a particularly voluble response to my report last Saturday on wine in China (which will be supplemented by a more colourful, less businessy piece in a few weeks' time). It was mostly...

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...

See also my notes on Barolo - 2007s and 2005 Riservas and Barbaresco - 2008s and 2006 Riservas , as well as Jancis's Barolo's impressive 2006s I will also soon be publishing my notes on a...

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...

See my introduction to this tasting of 2008 Barbarescos and 2006 Riservas, Barbaresco catches up , and Nebbiolo week - a guide for links to all the articles . Within each commune, the wines...

See my tasting notes on 2008 Barbarescos and 2006 Barbaresco Riservas and Nebbiolo week - a guide for links to all the articles. Barbaresco, which in the past may have been overshadowed...