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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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Tuesday 15 July 2025
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See our Nebbiolo guide for a complete list of articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima.
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See the Nebbiolo guide for more articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima.
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See our Nebbiolo guide for a full list of articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima. Here's why...
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Today the sad news reached us that one of Barolo's most emblematic characters, Aldo Conterno, has died at the age...
Don't quote me
This article could just as well be entitled 'How to enlarge your DOCG'.
As Jancis reported here 'Moscatomania' seems to...
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See Erbaluce – grape discovery of the year for Walter's introduction to this variety and its home territory in north-west...
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Look out for Walter's tasting notes as well. Update 7 Feb During my current trip to New York, I have...
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Last month I finally made it to Gavi, the town of the eponymous wine in the province of Alessandria, 70...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
For further suggestions from our Purple...
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See also last week's report on the 2011 vintage in other European wine regions.
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