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Recovering Marsala's history – without the British
Perpetuo, Ambrato, Altogrado – these ancient styles offer Marsala a way to reclaim its identity as one of Sicily’s vinous treasures. Above, Francesco Intorcia in the Intorcia Heritage cellar. See...
Walter Speller
Tuesday 13 January 2026
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Brunello 2025 – unpredictable and challenging
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Monday 22 December 2025
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See my tasting notes f rom this year's Contrade dell'Etna. Last April the ninth edition of the hugely popular Contrade...
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See also parts one and two about viticulture, and part three about winemaking. The final part of this series of...
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When I was working as a sommelier in an Italian restaurant in Berlin in the early 1990s, a colleague of...
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A couple of years ago I got an unexpected email from Jim Furze, who at the time was MD of...
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See also my review and tasting notes comparing Beaujolais 2015 and 2014 . Last week's reports from Beaujolais were the...
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Simon Reilly of www.wineloon.com tells us what he did on his holidays. On a recent family holiday in Germany, I...
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Marcelo Papa, winemaker for Chilean behemoth Concha y Toro, has a willingness to reveal all the detail and thinking behind...
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The level of detail in the technical presentations at last month’s International Cool Climate Wine Symposium in Brighton, alluded to...
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28 June The Resnicks, owners of Justin Vineyards, have apologised for cutting down all the oak trees, claiming to have...
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Hungary’s legendary wine region is changing. Chris Boiling, who recently planted some Furmint vines at his vineyard in Slovenia, travels...
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Wine Lister, the wine rating system much discussed on our members’ forum and devised by fine-wine market reporter Ella Lister...
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