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Barolo 2022 and some late releases – the tasting notes
For background details on this vintage see Barolo 2022 – vintage report. Above, the Lazzarito vineyard with the Alps in the background. While the majority of wines reviewed here are...
Walter Speller
Tuesday 30 December 2025
• 8 min read
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Brunello 2025 – unpredictable and challenging
Walter Speller
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Sassicaia 2017 proves a very different kettle of fish from the 2016. And a preview of the 2018 vintage in...
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The second half of Walter's report on the just-released vintage of Brunello di Montalcino. See also his tasting notes on...
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Walter's tasting notes on well over 100 regular bottlings of the latest vintage of Brunello should be read in conjunction...
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There's nothing whatever wrong with a tiny bit of well-balanced residual sugar, especially when it's historic. We were going to...
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We'd love to see more of these wines on export markets. A slightly shorter version of this article is published...
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Walter, an ex art history student, muses on the current, fluid state of Italian wine. The natural wine debate has...
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A change of heart and a change of style chronicled. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by...
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Reports from around the region. Is it as good as 2016? Seen here Walter's November 2019 view of the alps...
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Walter spent an intensive tasting week in the snowy Langhe recently and took this picture of the alps in Verduno...
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The 2016 vintage is game-changing. You'll want to buy some, and you can hardly go wrong.
When I reread my...
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Two-thousand-year-old alpine viticulture on impossibly steep slopes starring primus inter pares Nebbiolo, Valtellina is surely bound to become Italy’s next...
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Walter calls this 'a concise history of more than 2,000 years of wine production' in this spectacular alpine setting. It...
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25 November 2019 To find out more, see Valtellina report - part 1 for a history of the region and...
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Robin Baum, a retired lawyer looking even more like the classic Englishman against the backdrop of Tuscany, his current stomping...
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This collection of 41 tasting notes complements Cirò – the past and Cirò – the future.
Notes from a flight...
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