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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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Brunello 2021 – the single-vineyard and selezione wines
The wines Brunello producers are most proud of from the 2021 vintage, assessed. See also Walter’s overview of the vintage and reviews of the Brunello Classicos. Ripe grapes in San...
Walter Speller
Tuesday 2 December 2025
• 6 min read
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Brunello 2021 – the estate wines
Walter Speller
Monday 1 December 2025
• 9 min read
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Everything the Currado family do is exactly the reverse of what is considered the norm. They are the proprietors of...
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We have a very special event to present to Purple Pagers later this week. Here is the first of three...
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My first encounter with Maurizio Zanella, the ebullient president of the Consorzio di Franciacorta, Italy's most serious take on traditional-method...
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I am always a little reluctant to make any reference to the mafia in my reports on Italy. Not that...
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See Our collected works – a guide. This is the eleventh and last of our series of regional collections of...
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See Sicily in 2013 – a guide for links to all related articles. After my exhilarating adventures in Messina and...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See Walter Speller's unrivalled comprehensive report...
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See also Walter's introduction to and tasting notes on more than 200 Barolo 2009s. Still to come, reviews of Barolo...
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See also Wallowing in Barolo, published yesterday, and Battling bureaucracy in Barolo.
In my introduction to Nebbiolo Prima 2013 I...
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Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi in Panzano reports on the last two vintages in Chianti Classico – and gives his...
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After the comments made by Franco Soldera in one of Italy's most important newspapers, Corriere della Sera, on 26 March...
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Another titbit for those entirely uninterested in Bordeaux.... While Vino Nobile di Montepulciano in general seems a little inert of...
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For anyone in Montalcino fearing a dull Easter, Gianfranco Soldera of Case Basse (pictured here by Jon Wyand) had a...
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Just before the annual Tuscan en primeur tastings (on which I will report in detail later this week) last February...
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See also Walter’s 150 latest Chianti Classico tasting notes.
During this year’s presentation of the new Chianti Classico vintages in...
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By Paul O'Doherty. See our guide to 2012 wine book reviews.
Brunello di Montalcino
Understanding and Appreciating One of Italy's...
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