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Barolo Riserva 2016 vintage report: 20 top picks by quality and value
The 2016 vintage is one of the best in Barolo, indeed since at least 2010 which is comparable in the exceptional quality produced in terms of both Barolo and Castiglione Falletto. Many previous...
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Top value Barolo 2018: 13 great picks
Barolo is dominated by pricey bottles but there’s still relative value to be found. The wines below all come in at under £50/€60/$70 retail which, although isn’t exactly pocket money, is still a great...
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Barbaresco 2019 vintage report: 40 wines to try
More elegant and less powerful in style, Barbaresco suffered much more in the lean 2018 vintage than Barolo. The hail and downy mildew, for those who were affected by it, further complicated things. In...
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Barbaresco Riserva 2017 vintage report plus top picks
Defined as ‘the harvest of the dust’, 2017 was remembered as an impressively dry vintage....
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Alto Piemonte Nebbiolo report and top picks
Alto Piemonte is the collective term for several small DOCs in northern Piedmont, situated almost 100 miles northeast of Alba. It includes Boca, Bramaterra, Faro, Gattinara, Ghemme, Lessona and...
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Roagna: Producer profile & 11 wines tasted
An old, worn wooden stool appears from the darkness of the cellar, upon which Luca Roagna arranges a perfectly rinsed pair of Zalto Burgundy glasses, a corkscrew and a glass spittoon. Then he walks...
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Proprieta Sperino: producer profile and historic wines tasted
Proprieta Sperino in the Lessona DOC, Alto Piemonte, has been managed with great enthusiasm and flair for some years by Paolo de Marchi’s son, Luca. Scroll down to see tasting notes and scores for 10...
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Le Piane: producer profile and six wines tasted
Le Piane vineyards.Alto Piemonte, an east-west wine territory in northern Piedmont, has attracted a good deal of critical attention over the past decade, especially with its Nebbiolo-based wines such...
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Marchesi di Barolo discovery tasting at the Decanter London Fine Wine...
Valentina Abbona.Valentina Abbona was excited to show guests at this year’s Decanter London Fine Wine Encounter sold-out discovery tasting (entitled ‘Shades of Nebbiolo’) just what makes her family’s...
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Mature Barolo from the cellar for Christmas
Piedmont, in the northwest corner of Italy, is as renowned for its food as its wines. The town of Bra is home to the Slow Food movement, while arguably the most famous truffle market in the world can...
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Ceretto: producer profile & 19 wines tasted
Tasting through Ceretto’s Barolo and Barbaresco portfolio is both a hedonistic and educational experience. Few wineries offer an equally varied line-up of excellent wines from some of Piedmont’s most...
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Barolo 2019: vintage report & 139 recommendations
Barolo 2019 vintage rating: 5/5 Good distribution of rainfall throughout the long growing season, with a warm spring, a scorching end to July which led to sunburnt grapes in some vineyards, and a...
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Barolo Riserva 2017: vintage report and 26 recommendations
Austerity is not all the same: Nebbiolo is more austere than Pinot Noir and Sangiovese; Barolo is more austere than Barbaresco; the stern texture of Monforte and Serralunga is different from that of...
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Barbaresco 2020: Vintage report & 50 wines tasted
Clear skies, crystal-clear rivers and clean air: the 2020 vintage started while the world was in lockdown. Going to work in the vineyards was one of the few permissible activities at the time (lucky...
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Barbaresco Riserva 2018: Vintage report and 11 recommendations
Either way you look at it, 2018 was not really a Riserva vintage in Piedmont’s Barbaresco DOCG. There was the spring frost, the hail on 17 July, then a good deal of rain on top of the warm climate....
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Gaja masterclass: DFWE New York
Gaia Gaja at the Gaja Decanter Fine Wine Encounter New York MasterclassGaia credits New York and American wine writer Burton Anderson with pushing fine Italian wine to the forefront of the world’s...
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Producer profile: Paolo Scavino
Paolo Scavino sorting Nebbiolo grapesEnrico Scavino left school in 1951 so that he could begin helping his father, Paolo at the family estate. Nothing unusual about that, except that Enrico was just 11...
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Wine with pork: Advice on great pairings
Seven wine styles to drink with pork: White wine German Riesling Condrieu (Viognier) Chenin Blanc Red wine Pinot Noir Grenache / Garnacha (red or rosé) Aged Barolo (Nebbiolo) Sicilian Nerello...
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Barbaresco 2013: A retrospective of one of the top vintages in the last decade
Michaela Morris conducts the blind-tasting at Barbaresco's town hall.The fate of a wine writer is tasting dozens of wines soon upon – or even prior to – release in order to assess a vintage and predict...
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Groundbreaking Gaja: A lifetime's work
When you attend an event titled, ‘The tasting of a lifetime’, you can be fairly certain there will be some rather interesting wines on show. And when the winery in question is Gaja, you’d better be...
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