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From the shores of Lake Balaton to the volcanic fields of Tokaj, Hungarian wines have never been better. Above, the volcanic remnants of Tokaj viewed from the Szent Támas vineyard...
Oliver Coleman
• 4 min read
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2026 Volcanic Wine Awards – Chairman's Awards
The most outstanding wines from volcanic soils that we tasted during the competition. John Szabo MS took the image above of sunrise in Napa. When John Szabo MS asked the...
Tara Q Thomas
• 1 min read
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Contrade dell’Etna, the annual en primeur presentation of Etna wines which took place last April just below Europe’s largest and...
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One of the saddest recent losses to the wine world was that of Haridimos Hatzidakis, all-too-young founder of the outstanding...
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25 January 2018 We are republishing this fascinating article free today in our Throwback Thursday series.
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This is the first of two riveting articles based on Walter's original researches on the less familiar flanks of Sicily's...
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24 August 2017 We're republishing this article from 2009, in our Throwback Thursday series, as a tribute to the hugely...
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See my tasting notes f rom this year's Contrade dell'Etna. Last April the ninth edition of the hugely popular Contrade...
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Sicily’s Etna is regularly described as the ‘Burgundy of the south’, which I take as a reference to its parcellated...
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Last week I was given probably the rarest wine I will ever have the chance to taste. It was only...
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Italy’s fondness for en primeur tastings continues unabated (see, for example, Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Nebbiolo Prima, etc, etc)...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my Exotica from the Canary...
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See this Guide to our Sicilian week. This is the finale of Walter Speller's series on Sicily, published this week...
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