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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
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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See inside information for some background to this relatively unknown variety and varietal. These current examples are listed in order...
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See my take on this in wine news. I tasted 98 of the 250 wines glorified with tre-bicchiere/three-glass status in...
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One of the great mysteries of the wine world is why the British are so bad at Italian wine. American...
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Thirty-five years ago Pio Tosini, who died earlier this year aged 95, lost an argument that has had a profound...
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