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Mamoiada – the wines
Part two of Walter’s deep dive into Sardinia’s great Grenache stronghold. See Mamoiada – the apex of Grenache in Italy for background on the comeback of this historic region. While...
Walter Speller
Tuesday 18 February 2025
• 7 min read
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Mamoiada – the apex of Grenache in Italy
Walter Speller
Monday 17 February 2025
• 1 min read
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Italian new releases late 2024 – the centre, south and islands
Walter Speller
Tuesday 31 December 2024
• 11 min read
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A clutch of vertical tastings of some special Italian wines, including a Sardinian rarity and a special Vin Santo.
Tim...
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Jancis writes When I was in Sardinia the summer before last, I enjoyed the wines a lot – especially the...
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It's dusty, windswept, almost African in its wide-flung spaces and scraggy escarpments. Isolated old farmhouses, propped up with corrugated iron...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. Many chefs and restaurateurs in Italy operate with...
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A version of this article is published by The Financial Times. For tasting notes see Rest of Italy assemblage. If...
Nick on restaurants
Had the signposts been any more specific, we might have missed what is possibly the best gelateria in Italy. Well...
Nick on restaurants
The young English boy playing in the sea off the beach at Villasimius on the south-eastern tip of Sardinia could...
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One of Italy’s most famous oenologists, Giacomo Tachis, died on Sunday at the age of 82. He became world-famous as...
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Yet more Italy today. Nick and I have just returned from a long weekend in eastern Sicily, where vine growers...
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For winery recommendations, mainly in the south, see this thread in the members' forum.
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The Carignan vine tends to divide wine drinkers. You either love it or loathe it. In general, as longstanding purple...
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While Sicily is in a state of wine revolution (see Sicily – Italy's new California), there are signs that vinous...
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