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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
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See our guide to all of Walter's articles about this year's Piemonte en primeur.
I must admit that I am...
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25 May In the light of the lukewarm consumer response to the 2016 Bordeaux en primeur campaign reported today in...
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See this guide to all Walter's articles this year on major tastings of Piemonte wines.
Roero, the region that is...
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See this guide to all Walter's articles this year on major tastings of Piemonte wines.
The following 41 Barolo 2013...
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Walter has a unique inside track on the latest releases from Barbaresco, a total of 140 2014s and 2012 Riservas...
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See this guide to all Walter's articles this year on major tastings of Piemonte wines.
The stellar ascent of Nebbiolo...
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The final entry we are publishing as part of our wine writing competition comes from Montana. Tomorrow, we open a...
Book reviews
5 January 2017 We're republishing this group of Tam's wonderfully thorough wine-book reviews free today as part of our regular...
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Bisso Atanassov, now producer of La Biòca Barolo, reports that the Barolo and Barbaresco 2016 harvest is too good and...
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At the age of 76, an extremely fit and dynamic Angelo Gaja greeted us at dinner during a celebration of...
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Jancis writes This article feels as though it was put together by mice while...
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See this guide to our recent coverage of Barolo and Barbaresco.
The final morning of this year’s Nebbiolo Prima was...
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This is the second of Walter's three tasting reports on this year's Nebbiolo Prima, including 271 tasting notes published before...
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Walter attended this year's presentation of the latest vintages of Barolo and Barbaresco in Alba recently and, as far as...
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This is the first of three tasting reports from this year's Nebbiolo Prima. As far as we know, Walter's are...
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Instead of our usual Throwback Thursday, we are publishing this rather worried look into the future as a companion piece...
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