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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
• 2 min read
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Brunello 2025 – unpredictable and challenging
Walter Speller
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
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See also the overview Barolo – the next big thing?This week we'll be publishing our first notes on the lauded...
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See also Amaronics – the extraordinary economics of Amarone. 'The drama of Amarone is that the world cannot get enough...
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This collection of 61 tasting notes was heralded in Walter's article on Amaronics. Perhaps another sign that the Valpolicella region...
Don't quote me
Walter's tasting notes on the Amarone 2010s are now published.
This year's presentation of the new Amarone 2010 vintage, tasting...
Don't quote me
See also Walter's wine-by-wine review of the just-released 2009 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino and the 2008 Riservas, including a...
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I am always banging on about the fact that Italy should do much more extensive research into the different terroirs...
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See this guide to our autumn collections. Largely thanks to our Italian specialist Walter Speller's hard work and enthusiasm, this...
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Walter writes: The story of Taurasi, Campania's sturdy, long-lived red based on the Aglianico grape variety and often referred to...
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The wine competition that is Radici del Sud, although it not officially described as such, is accompanied by a parallel...
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One of Italy's idiosyncrasies is its two-tier system of quality wines. While Italy has corralled every snippet of vines in...
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After the clinical part of my investigation, tasting 41 Pinot Biancos under blind conditions, came the research in the field...
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It was while visiting Tenuta San Guido, the Tuscan estate responsible for Sassicaia, that I realised the extraordinary fact that...
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See also Walter on Pinot Bianco in Alto Adige and his account of Manincor there.Transparency I got in the bucket...
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After last week's audit of the quantitative significance of organic and biodynamic viticulture, and in the wake of Walter's conversion...
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Indigenous varieties are all the rage at the moment in the wine world [ahem, did I tell you about our...
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