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Barolo 2022 and some late releases – the tasting notes
For background details on this vintage see Barolo 2022 – vintage report. Above, the Lazzarito vineyard with the Alps in the background. While the majority of wines reviewed here are...
Walter Speller
Tuesday 30 December 2025
• 8 min read
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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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These tasting notes should be read in conjunction with A tale of tannin. There are roughly two soil types in...
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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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The second part of Nebbiolo Prima, the...
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Much excitement has surrounded the 2004 Barolos, which is why we have seized all opportunities to taste them. You can...
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Much has already been written about the consistently high quality of Barolo 2004. Not all the wines have been bottled...
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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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John Goodwin asked recently in your turn whether Clerico and Scavino's 2000 Barolos were wines to get excited about. Here...
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