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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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One of Italy’s most famous oenologists, Giacomo Tachis, died on Sunday at the age of 82. He became world-famous as...
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This is the first in a series of regular news updates on goings-on in Italian wine. Alice Feiring engaged as...
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Walter recently tasted his way through the 2011 Brunellos, the 2010 Brunello Riservas and many a cask sample of 2015...
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A love of wine can easily lead to obsession, but I have never seen it embodied in such a quirky...
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I featured this Dolcetto-based beauty in my recent round up of Oddbins latest...
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See our guide to all of this season's compilations. See also Italy, the whites – a compilation and see what...
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26 November We're publishing a second Throwback Thursday article today, Thanksgiving Day, since we now know exactly which wines Walter...
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See our guide to all of this season's compilations. See also Italy – the reds, and Walter on the 2015...
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This is one of two articles investigating where Franciacorta as an Italian traditional-method sparkling wine region stands today. See also...
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See also What's wrong with Franciacorta? Franciacorta may have been a runaway success in its domestic market since the 1970s...
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From €7.75, $10.79, £7.99, AU$19.99, DKK 99, CA$20.27, NOK 134.90 Find this wine This unassuming bottle of wine, with a...
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Vittorio Fiore was one of Tuscany’s army of itinerant oenologists but decided to establish his own wine estate. The result...
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I first tasted Passito di Pantelleria some years back and ever since I’ve been hooked on it. Last November Pantelleria...
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The day immediately after the DBG Italian tasting, Berry Bros and Rudd held its annual Italian portfolio tasting, grandly called...
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David Berry Green, until very recently Italian wine buyer at Berry Bros and Rudd, in which role he built up...
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It started with a tweet. I had just got back from Australia having literally tasted hundreds of Australian wines from...
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