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Barolo veteran Lorenzo Accomasso dies
Walter remembers a legendary Barolo producer as difficult as he was talented. Sometimes when you hear that someone has passed away, it strikes you as a sheer impossibility because they...
Walter Speller
Tuesday 12 August 2025
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Barolo 2021 – an enigmatic vintage
Walter Speller
Wednesday 6 August 2025
• 11 min read
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Walter previews the forthcoming Barolo vintage, and took this picture of morning fog in the vineyard. Jancis adds some more...
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Sad news came from the Langhe yesterday evening with the announcement of Giuseppe Rinaldi’s death just days before his seventieth...
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See also Walter's final tranche of 133 tasting notes on the surprising 2014 vintage in Barolo, also published today.
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These 133 tasting notes augment Walter's earlier report Barolo 2014 – not light but lithe.
In March I went back...
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Don't do this at home but the other day I blended a Napa Cab with a Barolo, and enjoyed the...
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In the invitation to this tasting, the first ever held in London by the Union des Gens de Métier, the...
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25 May In the light of the lukewarm consumer response to the 2016 Bordeaux en primeur campaign reported today in...
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See this guide to all Walter's articles this year on major tastings of Piemonte wines.
The following 41 Barolo 2013...
Nick on restaurants
France’s borders have been penetrated by Italian food just as effectively as those of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and...
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During my trip to Barolo to taste the forthcoming and highly anticipated 2013 vintage last week, rumours of an imminent...
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'Mr Rachel', Lee Shaughnessy of Mid Sussex Photography, very kindly acted as official photographer at our fourth Barolo Night at...
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Jancis writes Our picture shows Barolo Night, New York, that took place last Monday night at Tribeca Grill, thanks to...
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Justerini and Brooks’s Barolo tasting has become an annual fixture on the London tasting calendar, and a clear sign that...
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The 2005 vintage in Barolo is not considered great by any stretch of the imagination, but when tasting some 30...
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A highlight of our celebrations of my 40th anniversary of writing about wine and Julia's 10th anniversary of toiling for...
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19 November 2015 Now that we are able to confirm which 40 wines (see below) will be shown at our...
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