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Barbaresco 2022 – a waiting game
A tannic vintage produced some lovely surprises and shows how far growers have come in dealing with summer heat. Albino Rocca (some of whose vineyards are pictured above) produced a...
Walter Speller
Wednesday 20 August 2025
• 6 min read
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Barolo 2021 – an enigmatic vintage
Walter Speller
Wednesday 6 August 2025
• 11 min read
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More Barolo 2021 and some late releases
Walter Speller
Tuesday 21 January 2025
• 7 min read
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25 March 2021 Two wines from Diego Conterno now added to the tasting notes below.
16 December 2020 Walter was...
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Walter takes us on a tour of the Langhe growers’ climate-change toolbox and exclusively helps us to master an excessively...
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Walter's view from Tre Stelle towards Barbaresco and with the crus of Martinenga and Rabajà in the distance illustrates this...
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When he first tasted Barolo 2016s late last year, Walter was excited. His second major tasting, conducted in strictest socially...
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Stuck in a red-wine rut? Richard offers many a solution. Despite wine’s infinite variation, it’s easy for us to become...
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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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Walter spent an intensive tasting week in the snowy Langhe recently and took this picture of the alps in Verduno...
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The 2016 vintage is game-changing. You'll want to buy some, and you can hardly go wrong.
When I reread my...
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Two-thousand-year-old alpine viticulture on impossibly steep slopes starring primus inter pares Nebbiolo, Valtellina is surely bound to become Italy’s next...
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Walter calls this 'a concise history of more than 2,000 years of wine production' in this spectacular alpine setting. It...
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25 November 2019 To find out more, see Valtellina report - part 1 for a history of the region and...
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Walter revisits Barolo 2015 in May 2019, five months after his initial impressions.
The 2015 Barolo vintage that I tasted...
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One of Italy's most sought-after wine regions is, tantalisingly, yet to reach its full potential. April saw the presentation of...
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Walter profiles an Australian in the Langhe. On 5 March Walter will be hosting for members of the wine trade...
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About half of the 71 wines reviewed in this article were tasted at the Nebbiolo Day hosted by our own...
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The wines of Alto Piemonte, a string of tiny, jewel-like denominations in the north of Piemonte, remain a thing of...
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