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Alto Piemonte rediscovered

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See this guide to all Walter's articles this year on major tastings of Piemonte wines. 

Few wine regions in Italy attract as much attention as Etna but, as I pointed out in my wildly oversubscribed masterclass at last week's London Wine Fair, it is about to be joined by another, less obvious one. It may lack the active, sizzling volcano that appeals to the imagination of so many wine lovers, but it has something else the wine world is increasingly after: Nebbiolo. The rising popularity of this grape, especially in its Barolo and Barbaresco form, is now changing the...