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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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Carla Capalbo, an American-born food and wine writer who was raised in London, is one of those very few professionals...
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The two most important Italian associations for 'natural wine' producers, Vini Veri and VinNatur, may well soon experience competition from...
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The 114 wines here were all tasted when I visited Puglia for the Radici del Sud wine competition reported on...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my reviews of 232 current...
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Below is a guide to this week's collection of Nebbiolo gems that Walter Speller, our Italian expert (captured in the...
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20 Jul 2011: See also Getting to grips with Puglia, tasting notes for 232 Puglian wines as well as the...
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I was having dinner at a restaurant in Florence with Lorenza Sebasti and Marco Pallanti of the admirable Chianti Classico...
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From €5.95, £7.20 Find this wine The Italian wine scene is so odd. Even odder than the French one, it...
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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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