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New Italian releases 2026 – centre and south
New wines from Tuscany, the Marche and Lazio, and exciting projects in Sicily, uncovered in Walter’s new-release tastings. See also Walter’s report on the new releases from Italy’s north, and...
Walter Speller
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Last Friday, Marco De Bartoli, Marsala wine's undisputed leader and one of the most admired wine personalities in Italy, died...
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From €10.60, US$23.44, £13.80 Find this wine You may remember my rather gushing review of Cos Frappato 2008 IGT Sicilia...
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See Walter's tasting notes on 75 Sicilian wines shown at this year's en primeur tasting. While the dust of Bordeaux...
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The following tasting notes and observations on about 75 fine wines made at this year's presentation of Sicilian wines en...
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Cerasuolo di Vittoria, Sicily's first (and so far only) DOCG in a sea of vino da tavola and a handful...
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At this year's Sicilia En Primeur 2010 event, of which more later, featuring the wines of 65 Sicilian producers grouped...
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From €10.05, £13.49, US$24.99 Find this wine. Sometimes you taste a wine and you want to do two things at...
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Charities which focus on the production of wines can expect to elicit the same reaction most organic wines have provoked...
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Find this wine This week’s wine is not only deliciously easy to like and thoroughly unlike any other wine I...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See also tasting notes on...
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See also my overview Etna – the burgundy of the Mediterranean?
The nearly 60 tasting notes below were taken at...
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Find these wines The more wines I taste from the lava-prone slopes of Mount Etna, the more excited I am...
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before... ...and after. Andrea Franchetti is best known for his isolated and grandly, nay, idiosyncratically ambitious southern Tuscan propertyTenuta di...
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