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2020 Brunello Riserva – a worthwhile investment
If you appreciate wines that reflect vintage and terroir, the top 2020 Brunellos are well worth buying. Above, the Poggio di Sotto estate, which produced an outstanding Riserva in 2020...
Walter Speller
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See also last week's report on the 2011 vintage in other European wine regions.
It is a sweltering early August...
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Carla Capalbo, an American-born food and wine writer who was raised in London, is one of those very few professionals...
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The two most important Italian associations for 'natural wine' producers, Vini Veri and VinNatur, may well soon experience competition from...
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The 114 wines here were all tasted when I visited Puglia for the Radici del Sud wine competition reported on...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my reviews of 232 current...
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Below is a guide to this week's collection of Nebbiolo gems that Walter Speller, our Italian expert (captured in the...
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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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