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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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Zubair Mohamed started selling wine at the back of his father's florist shop in Edinburgh in 1984. According to the...
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7 September 2017 This Throwback Thursday is a real blast from the past, published on 25 October 2002, 15 years...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The reopening of Enoteca Turi, the long-established Italian restaurant...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. If you were to poll the British wine...
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See also The popular trencherman at Liberty. One of the British Isles' most distinctive independent wine importers celebrated their twentieth...
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This is the second, highly opinionated report by Marcelo Retamal, winemaker for De Martino in Chile, on his most recent...
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Author of this report, Marcelo Retamal, technical director of De Martino, is one of the most respected winemakers in Chile...
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David Berry Green is the son of Christopher Berry Green, who preceded Simon Berry as chairman of family wine merchants...
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In his article yesterday, Walter bemoaned the demise of the annual tasting known as the Definitive Italian, one that became...
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Italian fine wine is taken so seriously these days in the UK that it has led to the demise of...
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See this guide to all Walter's articles this year on major tastings of Piemonte wines.
The following 41 Barolo 2013...
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We start the penultimate week of entries to our wine writing competition with the following two articles from Brinton Resto...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . See also my tasting notes from Brunello Night...
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It's dusty, windswept, almost African in its wide-flung spaces and scraggy escarpments. Isolated old farmhouses, propped up with corrugated iron...
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For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2016, see this guide .
19 January 2017...
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We're publishing both articles submitted to our popular wine writing competition by Pierazzo da Feltre (right), who describes himself thus...
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