Tuscany

Inside information Federico Vincenzi sent me the following results of a blind tasting of the 2005 vintage from various smaller but locally...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The Chianti Rufina zone is often overlooked, being...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. Isole e Olena, two adjacent clusters of old...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The Manettis have owned this 70 hectare estate...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. This highly regarded estate is so far south...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The Costanti estate is just outside the town...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. See also my Argiano notes for an explanation...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. This week and next I’ll be publishing notes...

Tasting articles In the second of our series of vertical tastings of significant Italian wines (s ee details of our Italian Wine...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. There's nothing new or remarkable about planting Bordeaux...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. There’s nothing new or remarkable about planting Bordeaux...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See details of our Italian Wine...

Tasting articles See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The following 40-odd current Chianti Classicos, mostly Riservas...

Wines of the week Find this wine Here’s another great-value Italian red – and much more sophisticated and rewarding for the medium term that...

Tasting articles Here are notes on more than 50 Brunello di Montalcino Riservas from the decidedly promising 2001 vintage, a follow up...

Wines of the week Find this wine En route to Bordeaux last week I spent a day at Vinitaly, the giant wine fair held...