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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
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Brunello 2025 – unpredictable and challenging
Brunello farmers never knew what nature would throw at them next in 2025. Yet somehow they managed, even claiming that the vintage is better than 2024. Above, the view from...
Walter Speller
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
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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...
Book reviews
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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16 November 2016 Specialist wine lawyer John Barker explains: 'In Australia, Prosecco can be used as a vine variety name...
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Being able to show a flight of 11 consecutive vintages of Brunello in a region with so many newcomers and...
Wines of the week
From £14.99, €15.35, $20, 1,857 yen, AU$29.99 Find this wine ‘Energy’ may sound odd, or pretentious, in a tasting note...
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Ever since JancisRobinson.com has benefited from such a diligent and provocative Italian correspondent as Walter Speller (see his review of...
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See Etna – winemakers' honeypot for my introduction to this tasting. Contrade dell’Etna, the annual presentation of embryonic Etna wines...
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