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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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20 Jul 2011: See also Getting to grips with Puglia, tasting notes for 232 Puglian wines as well as the...
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I was having dinner at a restaurant in Florence with Lorenza Sebasti and Marco Pallanti of the admirable Chianti Classico...
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From €5.95, £7.20 Find this wine The Italian wine scene is so odd. Even odder than the French one, it...
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Walter Speller, our Italian specialist (pictured), has been working extremely hard on our behalf recently, as has Monty Waldin for...
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Following the en primeur tasting in Montepulciano (see my long report, The discreet charm of Vino Nobile), I had the...
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Walter Speller has already written here about Slow Wine 2011, the brand new wine guide from the Slow Food movement...
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27 Jan – Minor, but amusing update See here for evidence of how careful one has to be when discussing...
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An informal Piemonte theme seems to have developed here on Purple pages this week. I have accordingly compiled below a...
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As explained in Aldo Conterno – production shrivels, the Aldo Conterno estate comprises some of the very best sites of...
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The Aldo Conterno estate is quite impossible to overlook and rather grander than the artisanal producer dwelling you might be...
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While the general impression of Italy's 2010 vintage is one hampered by cool temperatures and lots of rain (see Vintage...
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After a two-year wait and much speculation about its format and style, the new Italian wine guide Slow Wine was...
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Italian wine writer Franco Ziliani recently published this interview with Jane Hunt MW here, in Italian, on the Association of...
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Earlier this year I had the most wonderful treat: a tasting of dozens of some of the most fascinating sweet...
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The recently founded Italian equivalent of the French Vignerons Indépendants association, the Federazione Vignaioli Indipendenti, has sent a round robin...
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Although the Bordeaux vintage rumour mill traditionally starts to spin almost before grapes are visible on the vine, Italy is...
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