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Brunello 2021 – the estate wines
Walter Speller
Monday 1 December 2025
• 9 min read
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Brunello vintage 2021 – new reference points for Montalcino
Walter Speller
Friday 28 November 2025
• 1 min read
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A fight, and some better news in Italy. Katia Nussbaum continues her Tuscan wine producer's diary. Click on the Katia's...
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Montalcino winegrower Katia Nussbaum on hair dye, tying up young vines, keeping apart within one household and disappearing eggs in...
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In which things become even more personally worrying for Katia. For previous diary entries, click on the Katia's diary tag...
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Katia Nussbaum continues her daily diary under lockdown in Italy with some of her family at her Montalcino estate, San...
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More from Katia Nussbaum in Montalcino as she tries to navigate her way through lockdown. Click on the Katia's diary...
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Montalcino winegrower Katia Nussbaum continues her very personal diary during lockdown at her estate. See days 1 and 2 for...
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The second half of Walter's report on the just-released vintage of Brunello di Montalcino. See also his tasting notes on...
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Walter picks over what’s good and bad about this latest vintage. See his t asting notes on 127 regular bottles...
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Walter's tasting notes on well over 100 regular bottlings of the latest vintage of Brunello should be read in conjunction...
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A change of heart and a change of style chronicled. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by...
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Carlo Ferrini's own wines are light years from the ones that made his reputation as a winemaking consultant in Italy...
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EPI – by no means a glamorous name, but one to watch. A version of this article is published by...
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Some welcome Italian gems here, and a foretaste of the many more 2016 Barolos that Walter has just been tasting...
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We go back in time via a vertical from one of Montalcino's longer-established producers.
This was a fascinating tasting, tracing...
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Another revealing encounter at San Polino outside Montalcino and praise for their 2014.
At the beginning of August I visited...
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Swedish Siena resident Tina Johannson shares her address book. See this guide to all the entries in our travel writing...
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