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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
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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During the last few years I have been rather a lone voice raving about the tiny DOCs of Mamertino and...
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€6.98, £7.95, 11.50 Swiss francs, 2,592 yen Find this wine You don’t often come across wines whose price seems genuinely...
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Beautiful Marche has it all: a breathtaking coastline on the Adriatic; tranquil green hills where vineyards are not the dominant...
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We all know that white wines made from the blessed Riesling grape can age superbly and that, pace premature oxidation...
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Silvana Ballotta runs Business Strategies, an Italian company that specialises in helping Italian wine producers access the funds available in...
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See this guide to our assemblages.
Jancis writes This article feels as though it was put together by mice while...
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See this guide to our assemblages. This is a collection of assorted tasting notes from our team, including a relatively...
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From €16, $33.99, £23.50 Find this wine Deeply depressed by yesterday's vote to leave the EU, I am determined to...
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From €7.95, $11.99, NZ$19.99, £10.95 Find the Pieropan, Calvarino 2014 mentioned en passant in this article Find the Fattori, Runcaris...
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Walter attended this year's presentation of the latest vintages of Barolo and Barbaresco in Alba recently and, as far as...
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This the second half of a collection of tasting notes that don't fit into one of Walter's thematic articles. See...
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This is the first of two collections of tasting notes that don't fit in to my themed reports, focusing on...
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A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The mainstream press love a wine spat...
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7 Apr 2016 In a week in which we published Walter's Chianti Classico's unsung bargains and today's Chianti Classico Riserva's...
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Italy’s love of French vine varieties is indisputable. Even if there is a distinct cooling of interest in the international...
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Alto Piemonte may be experiencing some serious hype among New York sommeliers, but is little known in the UK. And...
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