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Chianti Classico 2022 – Riserva v Gran Selezione
Pleasant surprises from a torrid year. Above, Alessandro Campatelli, director and oenologist (and now owner) at Riecine, made a 2022 Gran Selezione particularly admired by Walter (© Riecine). As promised...
Walter Speller
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After the clinical part of my investigation, tasting 41 Pinot Biancos under blind conditions, came the research in the field...
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It was while visiting Tenuta San Guido, the Tuscan estate responsible for Sassicaia, that I realised the extraordinary fact that...
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See also Walter on Pinot Bianco in Alto Adige and his account of Manincor there.Transparency I got in the bucket...
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After last week's audit of the quantitative significance of organic and biodynamic viticulture, and in the wake of Walter's conversion...
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Indigenous varieties are all the rage at the moment in the wine world [ahem, did I tell you about our...
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See our guide to this week's comprehensive stocktake on the extent of organic and biodynamic viticulture in the world today...
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As I explained last Friday when introducing my wine of the week, the autumn tasting season kicked off a week...
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Everything the Currado family do is exactly the reverse of what is considered the norm. They are the proprietors of...
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We have a very special event to present to Purple Pagers later this week. Here is the first of three...
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My first encounter with Maurizio Zanella, the ebullient president of the Consorzio di Franciacorta, Italy's most serious take on traditional-method...
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I am always a little reluctant to make any reference to the mafia in my reports on Italy. Not that...
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See Our collected works – a guide. This is the eleventh and last of our series of regional collections of...
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See Sicily in 2013 – a guide for links to all related articles. After my exhilarating adventures in Messina and...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See Walter Speller's unrivalled comprehensive report...
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See also Walter's introduction to and tasting notes on more than 200 Barolo 2009s. Still to come, reviews of Barolo...
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See also Wallowing in Barolo, published yesterday, and Battling bureaucracy in Barolo.
In my introduction to Nebbiolo Prima 2013 I...
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