Travel tips Trieste for wine lovers – 2024 edition Lorenza Pravato originally wrote a guide to this northern Italian city for... 6 Aug 2024 Guest contributor
Tasting articles Italian new releases 2024 – the north Walter presents the standouts from hundreds of bottles tasted over the first... 1 Jul 2024 Walter Speller
Free for all Luigi Veronelli and his 35,000-bottle legacy The man in the black cape … A shorter version of this... 20 Jan 2024 Jancis Robinson
Tasting articles Italian new releases late 2023 – the north Walter reports on a slew of wines he has tasted recently, starting... 27 Dec 2023 Walter Speller
Tasting articles Italian new releases 2023 – the north Walter treats us to a treasure chest of exciting, diverse and unforgettable... 1 May 2023 Walter Speller
Tasting articles New Italian releases 2022 – the north Walter takes us on a tour of what he has been tasting... 27 Dec 2022 Walter Speller
Tasting articles Old-vine wines – part 9 the rest of Italy Italy has its own rich repository of old vines and we begin... 10 Oct 2022 Tamlyn Currin
Tasting articles Old-vine wines series – part 7 Refosco di Faedis A very small-scale look at a big subject this week. See this... 26 Sep 2022 Tamlyn Currin
Tasting articles What should Italian Sauvignon Blanc taste like? Italy has more than 4,000 ha (nearly 10,000 acres) of Sauvignon Blanc... 3 Aug 2022 Walter Speller
Don't quote me The Pinot Grigio transformation Walter alerts us to the recent creation of the delle Venezie DOC... 25 Apr 2022 Walter Speller
Tasting articles New Italian releases – the north The first half of this collection of about 200 tasting notes takes... 1 Apr 2022 Walter Speller
Book reviews 2021 book reviews – Adriatic Two books look at a tiny corner of the north Adriatic from... 30 Nov 2021 Tamlyn Currin
Tasting articles Italian new releases, part 3 – Friuli and Veneto Another delicious cocktail of wine and opinion. See also part 1 on... 25 May 2021 Walter Speller
Free for all Rebula/Ribolla – living on the borderline? 25 December 2020 This Christmas Day we are republishing this comprehensive review... 25 Dec 2020 Guest contributor
Tasting articles Italian assortment 2020 – part 3, the north Walter presents the last of his more-random-than-usual collections of tasting notes. The... 17 Sep 2020 Walter Speller
Free for all WWC20 – Venica & Venica, Friuli Mirko Pastorelli is an Italian sommelier who belongs to the Association of... 21 Aug 2020 Guest contributor