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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
Walter Speller
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Read about Walter’s visit to this historic property and the background to this tasting in Fontanafredda post Eataly. See the...
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See the Nebbiolo guide for more articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima, as well as more in-depth...
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See our Nebbiolo guide for a complete list of articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima.
During Nebbiolo...
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See our Nebbiolo guide for a complete list of articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima.
During Nebbiolo...
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See the Nebbiolo guide for more articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima.
Although I had greatly looked...
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See the Nebbiolo guide for more articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima and read this in conjunction...
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See the Nebbiolo guide for more articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima, as well as more in-depth...
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See here for a general overview of Italy’s 2009 vintage, and our Nebbiolo week guide for more articles and tasting...
Free for all
Below is a guide to our comprehensive collection of Nebbiolo nuggets compiled by our Italian expert, Walter Speller. The most...
Inside information
See the Nebbiolo guide for more articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima. At first it looked like...
Wines of the week
About €25 Cesconi's evocatively named new metodo classico Blauwal (blue whale) from Trentino had me wondering for a moment what...
Don't quote me
In response to a thread in our Members' forum started by Purple Pager Gianpaolo Paglia lamenting the apparent lack of...
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I have spent such a long time tasting in Italy over the last couple of months (see, for example, our...
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Below is a collection of tasting notes I have tarried far too long before publishing –probably because I am not...
Tasting articles
See Erbaluce – grape discovery of the year for Walter's introduction to this variety and its home territory in north-west...
Inside information
Look out for Walter's tasting notes as well. Update 7 Feb During my current trip to New York, I have...
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