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Tasting articles Barbaresco 2022 – a waiting game

A tannic vintage produced some lovely surprises and shows how far growers have come in dealing with summer heat. Albino Rocca (some of whose vineyards are pictured above) produced a...

Walter Speller Wednesday 20 August 2025 • 6 min read

Tasting articles Barolo 2021 – an enigmatic vintage

Walter Speller Wednesday 6 August 2025 • 11 min read

Tasting articles More Barolo 2021 and some late releases

Walter Speller Tuesday 21 January 2025 • 7 min read

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Marta Rinaldi of Barolo on Zoom talking to Walter Speller about the 2017 vintage

Tasting articles

Barolo 2017 – the tasting notes

25 March 2021 Two wines from Diego Conterno now added to the tasting notes below. 16 December 2020 Walter was...

Gian Luca Colombo's Barolo remontage 2020

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Barolo 2017 – a first look at a surprising vintage

Walter takes us on a tour of the Langhe growers’ climate-change toolbox and exclusively helps us to master an excessively...

View from Tre Stelle towards Barbaresco with the crus of Martinenga and Rabajà in the distance.

Tasting articles

Barbaresco 2017 – refinement after confinement

Walter's view from Tre Stelle towards Barbaresco and with the crus of Martinenga and Rabajà in the distance illustrates this...

Walter's 2016 Barolo tasting at the Consorzio di Barolo

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Barolo 2016 – still shining brightly

When he first tasted Barolo 2016s late last year, Walter was excited. His second major tasting, conducted in strictest socially...

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Finding new wine to love: red

Stuck in a red-wine rut? Richard offers many a solution. Despite wine’s infinite variation, it’s easy for us to become...

Ar Pe Pe vineyards above the winery in Valtellina

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Come down from the mountain, Valtellina

We'd love to see more of these wines on export markets. A slightly shorter version of this article is published...

Snow in Verduno, Barolo on 15 November 2019

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Barolo 2016 – the tasting notes

Walter spent an intensive tasting week in the snowy Langhe recently and took this picture of the alps in Verduno...

Alberto Cordero di Montezemolo, Barolo in November 2019

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Barolo 2016 – the path to stylistic change

The 2016 vintage is game-changing. You'll want to buy some, and you can hardly go wrong. When I reread my...

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Valtellina report 2019 – part 2

Two-thousand-year-old alpine viticulture on impossibly steep slopes starring primus inter pares Nebbiolo, Valtellina is surely bound to become Italy’s next...