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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
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
In the last few weeks I...
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All the wines made at the outstanding Romagna estate Fattoria Zerbina described here seem to have lingering, elegant fruit flavours...
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On my arrival at the Fattoria Zerbina in Romagna, the first thing Cristina Geminiani showed me was a pair of...
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Italy's infatuation with international grape varieties shows no signs of waning. While the majority of wine-producing regions, especially from the...
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The ambitious aim of the European Union to organise all of Europe's wine regions into a single system more or...
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7 October 2016 We've just received an email from a Purple Pager who told us that, 'I am delighted to...
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From €13.90 a bottle and £90 for six Find this wine Housekeeping note: The observant among you might just have...
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In Europe 'tis the season of mellow fruitfulness, and the latest editions of Italian's most influential wine guides. The first...
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In Notes from the IMW AGM I outlined the structure of the Istituto del Vino Italiano di Qualità – Grandi...
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Mad Man of Barbaresco Angelo Gaja has just sent me the following cri de coeur entitled 'The Crisis and World...
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What's the collective noun for Masters of Wine? Yesterday was our Annual General Meeting at Vintners' Hall in London and...
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In On the trail of Sangiovese di Romagna, I described the work of the leading group of producers, the Convito...
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See my tasting notes on some top Sangiovese di Romagna wines. Sangiovese, which is almost always associated with Tuscany, is...
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In a recent interview with Winenews, the newly appointed Italian minister of Agriculture Giancarlo Galan (pictured) went on a collision...
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Anyone halfway familiar with the maps of the World Atlas of Wine will immediately agree that while France's regions look...
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Italian wine, with its confusing nomenclature and elastic regulations, is the very model of a modern major genre of wine...
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