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Italian new releases 2025 – the north
Great summer drinking from Alto Adige down to Emilia-Romagna. Plus some wines to put down for winter and beyond. Come back tomorrow for new releases from Tuscany and points south...
Walter Speller
Wednesday 9 July 2025
• 14 min read
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Italian new releases late 2024 – the north
Walter Speller
Monday 30 December 2024
• 14 min read
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In this entry to our 2024 wine writing competition, sommelier and wine expert Cynthia Chaplin writes about her encounter with...
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Walter presents the standouts from hundreds of bottles tasted over the first half of this year, reporting here on those...
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Walter treats us to a treasure chest of exciting, diverse and unforgettable wines from the north of Italy, from Piemonte...
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Castello di Cigognola is raising the bar for Lombardy's Oltrepò Pavese region in no uncertain manner. Agronomist Marco Cordani is...
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The first half of this collection of about 200 tasting notes takes in Piemonte, Alto Adige, Trentino, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Veneto and...
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The producers of an extraordinary red wine in northern Italy have had to fight to keep it extraordinary.
In May...
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Castello di Cigognola and vineyards are pictured above. See part 1 of this series on Valle d'Aosta and Piemonte, part...
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Walter presents the last of his more-random-than-usual collections of tasting notes. The image above is of Andrea Picchioni in his...
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From Botticino to Grand Central station. Buy this and help seriously underequipped hospitals in northern Italy.
From €14.12, 18.32 Swiss...
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We'd love to see more of these wines on export markets. A slightly shorter version of this article is published...
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Piemonte dominates this collection of more than 130 tasting notes, with the Veneto the second most important region represented in...
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A tasting from Italy's top sparkling wine appellation leaves more questions than answers. I wonder whether the producers and promoters...
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See this guide to our assemblages and today's article by Walter Why can't Sicily be more like the Rhône? This...
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A version of this article is also published in the Financial Times. See also Stevenson's world champions . While it...
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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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Oltrepò Pavese, located south of Milan in the south of Lombardy, remains one of Italy's most obscure wine regions. Sandwiched...
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