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Brunello 2021 – the single-vineyard and selezione wines
The wines Brunello producers are most proud of from the 2021 vintage, assessed. See also Walter’s overview of the vintage and reviews of the Brunello Classicos. Ripe grapes in San...
Walter Speller
Tuesday 2 December 2025
• 2 min read
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Brunello 2021 – the estate wines
Walter Speller
Monday 1 December 2025
• 9 min read
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Brunello vintage 2021 – new reference points for Montalcino
Walter Speller
Friday 28 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Varieties that leap over mountains with no regard for geopolitical borders make definitions tricky, says Wink Lorch. Above, a vineyard...
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Chianti Classico is such a fine wine – here’s the proof. Above, Panzano with the Conca d’Oro in the foreground...
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Restaurant recommendations in Florence and the Chianti Classico hills. Above, the friendly wine bar In Vino Veritas.
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Some of the world’s more ambitious, and ambitiously priced, wines – those offered this year on the Bordeaux Place. Above...
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A tannic vintage produced some lovely surprises and shows how far growers have come in dealing with summer heat. Albino...
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Walter remembers a legendary Barolo producer as difficult as he was talented. Sometimes when you hear that someone has passed...
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Wine communicator Sophia Longhi writes this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Susumaniello, one of southern Italy's most...
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Seychelles-based sommelier Alessandro Sgariglia writes this heartfelt entry to our 2025 wine writing competition about Cesanese, a central Italian grape...
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In this entry to our 2025 wine writing competition, wine and travel writer Marisa Finetti writes an ode to an...
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