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Barbaresco 2022 – a waiting game
A tannic vintage produced some lovely surprises and shows how far growers have come in dealing with summer heat. Albino Rocca (some of whose vineyards are pictured above) produced a...
Walter Speller
Wednesday 20 August 2025
• 6 min read
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2021 Barolo and 2022 Barbaresco – an early look
Walter Speller
Tuesday 12 November 2024
• 5 min read
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This is Nebbiolo Prima week on JancisRobinson.com. In June of this year, Walter managed to return from the five-day Nebbiolo...
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Tasting 2004 Barolo and Barbaresco at 10 years of age last May during the annual presentation of the latest vintage...
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Every time Piemonte is mentioned, attention is automatically drawn to Barolo and Barbaresco. This large collection of tasting notes dedicated...
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Walter continues his reports from Nebbiolo Prima 2014 in Alba with these 126 tasting notes on 2011 Barbaresco and Roero...
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Walter fired the opening salvo on Nebbiolo Prima 2014 and followed up with his notes on Barolo 2010s. This, the...
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See also Walter's introduction to Barolo 2009 and his 218 tasting notes. The 2010 season was not unlike this year...
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It is a regrettable fact that, despite Walter Speller's best efforts to inform and educate the British visitors to this...
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The afternoons during Nebbiolo Prima, after the the blind tastings held in the mornings (see Nebbiolo week – a guide...
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Last May when I visited the Langhe to taste more than 200 embryonic Barolo and Barbaresco wines in this year's...
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Angelo Gaja speaks his mind, as you will see if you search on his name on this site or click...
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The commune of Barbaresco, which was the focus of day one and much of the morning of day two of...
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As promised on the forum (initially in this thread) here are my notes from a blind tasting of Piemontese reds...
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I had an interesting challenge the other day: tasting the following 60 Barolos and Barbarescos in an attempt to find...
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The 1997 vintage was exceptional in Piemonte: famously ripe to overripe. It is clear from tasting all these wines that...
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