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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
• 1 min read
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Brunello 2021 – the single-vineyard and selezione wines
Walter Speller
Tuesday 2 December 2025
• 6 min read
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Brunello 2021 – the estate wines
Walter Speller
Monday 1 December 2025
• 9 min read
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Walter Speller, our Italian specialist (pictured), has been working extremely hard on our behalf recently, as has Monty Waldin for...
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Following the en primeur tasting in Montepulciano (see my long report, The discreet charm of Vino Nobile), I had the...
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Walter Speller has already written here about Slow Wine 2011, the brand new wine guide from the Slow Food movement...
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27 Jan – Minor, but amusing update See here for evidence of how careful one has to be when discussing...
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An informal Piemonte theme seems to have developed here on Purple pages this week. I have accordingly compiled below a...
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As explained in Aldo Conterno – production shrivels, the Aldo Conterno estate comprises some of the very best sites of...
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The Aldo Conterno estate is quite impossible to overlook and rather grander than the artisanal producer dwelling you might be...
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While the general impression of Italy's 2010 vintage is one hampered by cool temperatures and lots of rain (see Vintage...
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After a two-year wait and much speculation about its format and style, the new Italian wine guide Slow Wine was...
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Italian wine writer Franco Ziliani recently published this interview with Jane Hunt MW here, in Italian, on the Association of...
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Earlier this year I had the most wonderful treat: a tasting of dozens of some of the most fascinating sweet...
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The recently founded Italian equivalent of the French Vignerons Indépendants association, the Federazione Vignaioli Indipendenti, has sent a round robin...
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Although the Bordeaux vintage rumour mill traditionally starts to spin almost before grapes are visible on the vine, Italy is...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
In the last few weeks I...
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All the wines made at the outstanding Romagna estate Fattoria Zerbina described here seem to have lingering, elegant fruit flavours...
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