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Barolo 2022 – vintage report
A pleasant surprise, showing more nuance and complexity than initially expected. Above, a view of Serralunga d’Alba. 2022 is widely considered a hot vintage for large parts of the north...
Walter Speller
Monday 29 December 2025
• 1 min read
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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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Much has already been written about the consistently high quality of Barolo 2004. Not all the wines have been bottled...
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As promised on the forum (initially in this thread) here are my notes from a blind tasting of Piemontese reds...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Think of Italian wine and what...
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Over these few weeks we are publishing a series of articles on Italy, mainly notes on vertical tastings of wines...
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Federico Vincenzi kindly sends us this analysis of the Italian wines most garlanded in the following guides: - Duemilavini, Associazione...
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New DOCGs, Italy’s top category of wine quality, seem to be coming thick and relatively fast. Two new ones, Dolcetto...
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The annual Gambero Rosso guide Italian Wines has just announced this year’s list of its Tre Bicchiere (three glass) wines...
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The annual Gambero Rosso guide Italian Wines has just announced this year’s list of its Tre Bicchiere (three glass) wines...
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Last December I had a chance to taste a vertical of 14 of the most notable vintages of Ornellaia since...
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See also tasting notes on 33 top reds from Tuscany’s excellent 2001 vintage in purple pages France’s crise viticole may...
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What does the word Dartmoor mean to you? If you’re British but don’t know Devon, it may conjure up visions...
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Tasting notes and scores on all 17 wines tasted recently at Gidleigh Park plus a preview of 2002s from Ornellaia...
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José Vouillamoz, a Swiss specialist in DNA profiling of grapevines already known to purple pagers, announced last week that he...
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Here are the tre bicchiere (three glass) selections from the 2005 Gambero Rosso Guide to Italian Wines. I hear that...
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I recently tasted about 80 reds from southern Italy and the islands. These wines used typically IMHO to be either...
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See inside information for some background to this relatively unknown variety and varietal. These current examples are listed in order...
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