Italy
Latest Italy
Inside information
Recovering Marsala's history – without the British
Walter Speller
Tuesday 13 January 2026
• 1 min read
Tasting articles
Barolo 2022 and some late releases – the tasting notes
Walter Speller
Tuesday 30 December 2025
• 8 min read
More Italy
Tasting articles
See also The popular trencherman at Liberty. One of the British Isles' most distinctive independent wine importers celebrated their twentieth...
Free for all
This is the second, highly opinionated report by Marcelo Retamal, winemaker for De Martino in Chile, on his most recent...
Free for all
Author of this report, Marcelo Retamal, technical director of De Martino, is one of the most respected winemakers in Chile...
Tasting articles
David Berry Green is the son of Christopher Berry Green, who preceded Simon Berry as chairman of family wine merchants...
Tasting articles
In his article yesterday, Walter bemoaned the demise of the annual tasting known as the Definitive Italian, one that became...
Tasting articles
Italian fine wine is taken so seriously these days in the UK that it has led to the demise of...
Tasting articles
See this guide to all Walter's articles this year on major tastings of Piemonte wines.
The following 41 Barolo 2013...
Free for all
We start the penultimate week of entries to our wine writing competition with the following two articles from Brinton Resto...
Free for all
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . See also my tasting notes from Brunello Night...
Tasting articles
It's dusty, windswept, almost African in its wide-flung spaces and scraggy escarpments. Isolated old farmhouses, propped up with corrugated iron...
Book reviews
For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2016, see this guide .
19 January 2017...
Free for all
We're publishing both articles submitted to our popular wine writing competition by Pierazzo da Feltre (right), who describes himself thus...
Tasting articles
16 November 2016 Specialist wine lawyer John Barker explains: 'In Australia, Prosecco can be used as a vine variety name...
Tasting articles
Being able to show a flight of 11 consecutive vintages of Brunello in a region with so many newcomers and...
Wines of the week
From £14.99, €15.35, $20, 1,857 yen, AU$29.99 Find this wine ‘Energy’ may sound odd, or pretentious, in a tasting note...
Tasting articles
Ever since JancisRobinson.com has benefited from such a diligent and provocative Italian correspondent as Walter Speller (see his review of...
Choose your plan
Member
$135
/year
Ideal for wine enthusiasts
- Access 288,055 wine reviews & 15,863 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
Inner Circle
$249
/year
Ideal for collectors
- Access 288,055 wine reviews & 15,863 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
Professional
$299
/year
For individual wine professionals
- Access 288,055 wine reviews & 15,863 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
- Commercial use of up to 25 wine reviews & scores for marketing
Business
$399
/year
For companies in the wine trade
- Access 288,055 wine reviews & 15,863 articles
- Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
- Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
- Commercial use of up to 250 wine reviews & scores for marketing