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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
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Volcanic wines of mainland Italy
From Soave’s dormant cones to Campania’s shuddering Vesuvius, a tour of some of Italy’s most exciting wine regions. John Szabo MS took the image above of gnarly old vines in...
Tara Q Thomas
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This is Walter Speller's third collection of notes from last month's Collezione tasting in Florence, pictured here. CHIANTI CLASSICO 2005...
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Below are two large collections of tasting notes on some of the most food-friendly wines in the world, the first...
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These wines were tasted by Walter Speller at the Collezione Chianti Classico tasting in Florence described in Chianti country –...
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Walter Speller’s ruminations on Tuscany’s most important wine, and the special tasting of it in Florence illustrated, marks the beginning...
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“I’m a real Chianti girl”, proudly claimed Emanuela Stucchi Prinetti, owner of highly acclaimed Tuscan estate Badia a Coltibuono. Dressed...
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Federico Vincenzi sent me the following results of a blind tasting of the 2005 vintage from various smaller but locally...
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The Chianti Rufina zone is often overlooked, being...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. Isole e Olena, two adjacent clusters of old...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The Manettis have owned this 70 hectare estate...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. This highly regarded estate is so far south...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The Costanti estate is just outside the town...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. See also my Argiano notes for an explanation...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. This week and next I’ll be publishing notes...
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In the second of our series of vertical tastings of significant Italian wines (s ee details of our Italian Wine...
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There's nothing new or remarkable about planting Bordeaux...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. There’s nothing new or remarkable about planting Bordeaux...
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