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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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Brunello 2025 – unpredictable and challenging
Walter Speller
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Justerini & Brooks' Italian portfolio could be summarised as ‘solid and classic’. While J&B's main competitor, Berry Bros & Rudd...
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David Berry Green of London wine merchants Berry Bros & Rudd continues to hoover up interesting wines from every nook...
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See Tam's 36 tasting notes and her explanation of them.From a region respected for its glorious voices (cue Pavarotti), its...
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See Lambrusco – not fizzling out for how she felt about Lambrusco before and after her visit to Modena.
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From €12.25, 21 Swiss francs, $24.99, £17.16, 167 Swedish krone Find this wine It's hardly news that Italy is making...
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This selection of tasting notes is thanks mostly to British importer Armit, whose Italians could easily furnish a national gallery...
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I thought I'd seen everything in terms of unusual grapes' reach into the mass market when I first encountered Tesco...
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Italy has a wider range of wine treasures to share with us than any country I can think of. (This...
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Arch-traditionalist Giuseppe Rinaldi is rightly famous for his Barolo. I tried...
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At the recent MW Symposium in Florence, David Gleave MW of Liberty Wines was moderator of the session devoted to...
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As long predicted, the US overtook France to become the world's biggest consumer of wine last year, a year in...
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From €9.90, $?, £19.99 Find the dry Italian Petit Manseng Find the sweet Clos Uroulat Jurançon Who would have thought...
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See also the overview Barolo – the next big thing? This collection of tasting notes on assorted current releases from...
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