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2020 Brunello Riserva – a worthwhile investment
If you appreciate wines that reflect vintage and terroir, the top 2020 Brunellos are well worth buying. Above, the Poggio di Sotto estate, which produced an outstanding Riserva in 2020...
Walter Speller
• 2 min read
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Chianti Classico 2022 – Riserva v Gran Selezione
Pleasant surprises from a torrid year. Above, Alessandro Campatelli, director and oenologist (and now owner) at Riecine, made a 2022 Gran Selezione particularly admired by Walter (© Riecine). As promised...
Walter Speller
• 3 min read
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From $19.99, €15, 155 Danish krone, 24.50 Swiss francs, AU$67.80, £23.70 Find this wine Many a road has led to...
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Italy’s love of French vine varieties is indisputable. Even if there is a distinct cooling of interest in the international...
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You may not have heard of Orcia, a fairly recent Tuscan denomination squeezed in between Montalcino to the west and...
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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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Vittorio Fiore was one of Tuscany’s army of itinerant oenologists but decided to establish his own wine estate. The result...
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Bertold Salomon is a familiar figure on the Austrian wine scene. He preceded Willi Klinger as the generic representative of...
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From €19.50, £21.60, $35 Find this wine I first tasted this wine in January of this year but its arrival...
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20 Aug 2015 Richard spotted this vintage article, written in late 2001. It's rather fun to re-read it today and...
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This is a slightly longer version of an article published by the Financial Times. See also Walter’s January 2015 tasting...
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11 July 2015 I have just added the notes I was able to make on the night from my scrawl...
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Renzo Cotarella, in charge of winemaking for Italian mega wine producer Antinori and brother of roving oenologist Riccardo, was in...
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10 May Darrell Corti of Sacramento wine merchant Corti Brothers writes: 'You might be interested to know that the first...
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See also Drinking history – Biondi Santi back to 1955.
There are many pretenders to the Montalcino wine throne but...
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The wine that benefits the least from the annual Tuscany en primeur tastings is Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Compared with...
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Each year, at the same time as Brunello di Montalcino is released onto the market after a formidable four years...
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Our Italian week continues with this ragbag of Tuscan wines tasted reasonably recently in London, and might be read in...
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