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Brunello 2025 – unpredictable and challenging
Brunello farmers never knew what nature would throw at them next in 2025. Yet somehow they managed, even claiming that the vintage is better than 2024. Above, the view from...
Walter Speller
Monday 22 December 2025
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Wines to squirrel away
Some wine really does get better with age, and not all of it is expensive. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. One of...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 20 December 2025
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Brunello 2021 – the estate wines
Walter Speller
Monday 1 December 2025
• 9 min read
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Joss Fowler, currently resting, has a unique inside track on the world of fine-wine trading, and writes the distinctly superior...
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This is a slightly longer version of an article published by the Financial Times. See also Walter’s January 2015 tasting...
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11 July 2015 I have just added the notes I was able to make on the night from my scrawl...
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On Sunday night almost 100 tasters, the majority of them Purple Pagers, had a chance to taste 43 examples of...
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Back in January, Walter signalled just how exceptionally good the 2010 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino is in 2010 Brunello...
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10 May Darrell Corti of Sacramento wine merchant Corti Brothers writes: 'You might be interested to know that the first...
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See also Drinking history – Biondi Santi back to 1955.
There are many pretenders to the Montalcino wine throne but...
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See Walter's enthusiastic report on 159 Brunello di Montalcino 2010s. The photographs here and in the earlier report are his...
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The beginning of the new year in Italy transforms the sleepy, wintry hills of Tuscany into a hotbed of activity...
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This is the first of several reports by our estimable Italian specialist Walter Speller. We intend later this week to...
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During my second visit to Montalcino in February, I was given the opportunity to taste a handful of future Brunello...
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Here is Walter's comprehensive report – the first, we think – on the wines released in Montalcino at the beginning...
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See also Walter's wine-by-wine review of the just-released 2009 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino and the 2008 Riservas, including a...
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As so often on JancisRobinson.com, there are times of year when, poor things, we suffer a fine-wine logjam. As a...
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The very young Campi di Fonterenza estate, founded only in 1997 and run by twin sisters Margherita (left) and Francesca...
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These are the final tasting notes of the 2008 Brunello and Riserva 2007 Brunello as well as additional tasting notes...
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