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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
• 1 min read
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Barolo 2021 – an enigmatic vintage
Walter Speller
Wednesday 6 August 2025
• 11 min read
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We have a very special event to present to Purple Pagers later this week. Here is the first of three...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. I was standing on the terrace of Palas Cerequio, once a...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See Walter Speller's unrivalled comprehensive report...
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See Walter's definitive report on the latest Barolo vintage, 2009, the most comprehensive anywhere, and also Battling bureaucracy in Barolo...
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See our collection of tasting notes on fine Italian wines grown outside Piemonte to be published tomorrow.
Barolo, the region...
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The sad demise of Aldo Conterno inspired me to look deep into my reserves of unpublished tasting notes for the...
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See the Nebbiolo guide for more articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima.
Although I had greatly looked...
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See our Nebbiolo guide for a full list of articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima. Here's why...
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See the Nebbiolo guide for more articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima and read this in conjunction...
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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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During Nebbiolo Prima, I was invited to taste eight vintages of Armando Parusso's Bussia going back to the mythical vintage...
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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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See Nebbiolo week – a guide for links to all of this week's Nebbiolo articles. Below are my reviews of...
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See also my tasting notes on more than 160 of these immediate 2007 Barolos and more than 20 2005 Barolo...
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This collection of 44 tasting notes on a very satisfying combination of vintage and denomination marks the beginning of our...
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Although it may seem from my previous reports on the Langhe (see Aldo Conterno and Giuseppe Rinaldi) that I am...
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