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Etna lightens up
More white wines and lighter red wines are the style of the moment on this volcano. Last September I attended ‘Etna Days’, a four-day immersion in the wines of Europe’s...
Walter Speller
• 3 min read
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New Italian releases 2026 – centre and south
New wines from Tuscany, the Marche and Lazio, and exciting projects in Sicily, uncovered in Walter’s new-release tastings. See also Walter’s report on the new releases from Italy’s north, and...
Walter Speller
• 7 min read
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Paul O'Doherty reviews the latest crop of wine books. The World of Sicilian Wine Bill Nesto and Frances Di Savino...
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I spent last Friday night in St Michael's Church, Bath, hosting a wine tasting...
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I am always a little reluctant to make any reference to the mafia in my reports on Italy. Not that...
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See Sicily in 2013 – a guide for links to all related articles. After my exhilarating adventures in Messina and...
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Cheek gets you everywhere. At least that is what I thought for a moment when I contacted Alberto Tasca d’Almerita...
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Walter has been writing so many articles as a result of his travels in Sicily this year that we thought...
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See The resurrection of Mamertino and Mamertino's producers – all of them. In the picture is Alessia Planeta of western...
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See The resurrection of Mamertino and the tasting notes. Following Alessio's car in the blazing sunlight, in stark contrast to...
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The Italian winescape is awash with ancient wine denominations, of which unfortunately quite a few are languishing in obscurity or...
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See Sicily in 2013 – a guide for links to all related articles.The day after my Faro tasting I was...
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Readers may remember how only last year I raved about the Faro wines of two producers, Bonavita and Salvatores Geraci's...
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Can Nero d'Avola produce fine wines that express a very specific place of origin and improve with age? Sicilian father...
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The rival, royal warrant-holding wine merchants Berry Bros & Rudd and Justerini & Brooks face each other across London’s St...
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8 Aug – Barbara Santilli adds, ' Although It's still hard to assess the damage, Andrea says we lost about...
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Last year I reported on Salvo Foti, one of Etna's most prominent consultant oenologists, and especially his stance on ambient...
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