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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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WWC25 – The girl who played Ruchè, by Marisa Finetti
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Tuesday 15 July 2025
• 1 min read
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Too many wines are ready to drink, and the variation is scary. See yesterday's article on Barbaresco 2018 and Walter's...
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Perhaps not the most complex vintage, nor the most long-lived, but there is plenty to enjoy. Walter's picture of one...
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A wrongly overlooked, lightly sparkling wine of the week that needs no excuses.
Full-size bottles from €11.40, $14.50, HK$121.66, 142...
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Walter has been busy tasting for your delectation, and identifying the trends and budding stars. Above, the Torrette subzone in...
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The bad news keeps on coming. Enea Barbieri's picture is of the anti-frost measures taken at Tenuta di Trinoro in...
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Reports of severe frost damage to vines in a wide range of European wine regions are flooding in. Chablis, the...
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It takes time for this obscure Piemontese variety to show Walter what it's made of.
Uvalino is one of those...
Don't quote me
On Saturday we published Which red wine vintages to drink now but it concentrates largely on French wines. There is...
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Walter reports on the most recent vintage in Piemonte's hot spot, and official attempts to save the market for Barolo...
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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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Some fine Brunello 2016s, charming Barbaresco 2018s and rather more challenging Barolo 2017s. This photo of Barolo vineyards is by...
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A stunning monument to a grape whose wines were once regarded as white Barolo.
From €15, £16.50, $32.90.
Find this...
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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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The latest entrant to our sustainability heroes writing competition gives us her pretty starry bio before submitting her (unedited) entry...
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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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