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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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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See details of our Italian Wine...
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See details of our Italian Wine Festival for other Italian tasting notes. The following 40-odd current Chianti Classicos, mostly Riservas...
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Find this wine Here’s another great-value Italian red – and much more sophisticated and rewarding for the medium term that...
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Here are notes on more than 50 Brunello di Montalcino Riservas from the decidedly promising 2001 vintage, a follow up...
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Find this wine En route to Bordeaux last week I spent a day at Vinitaly, the giant wine fair held...
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See also members' forum . Gianfranco Soldera and his daughter Monica came to the UK recently under the auspices of...
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Is it just me who finds today’s email from London’s Fine & Rare Wines touting 'The 9th Best Wine in...
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More vintage reports roll in. Here’s one from Sesti of Montalcino in Tuscany and another, more official one from Oregon...
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find this wine – about 20 euros in Italy and Germany, £25 in the UK I’m very sorry that my...
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21 may: My apologies. In my haste to fly off to Washington DC for 24 hours to preview the 3rd...
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As I have already written (see inside information), 1999 seems to me to be an absolutely outstanding vintage for Brunello...
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Piero Antinori of the venerable eponymous Tuscan merchant has consistently been in the vanguard of developments in the Italian wine...
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These regular 1997 Brunellos were tasted in London in March 2002. They were noticeably riper than the 1998s (see my...
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See also my tasting notes on the 1997s. The 1998 vintage in Montalcino is sandwiched between two much better years...
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Andrea Franchetti sent me this account of the beginnings of this idiosyncratic southern Tuscan estate and I thought it a...
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The famous Tenuta San Guido at Bolgheri on the Tuscan coast which produces Sassicaia has launched an earlier-maturing, less expensive...
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