Reviews and Scores (wine score) is the section dedicated to evaluations of wines tasted by the Winemag editorial team. Tasting notes, wine scores out of 100 (/100), technical details, and territorial context to read and interpret the performance of Italian and international labels. An informative tool for navigating denominations, producers, vintages, and wine styles through intuitive wine scores.
Less and less Sagrantino di Montefalco and more and more Trebbiano Spoletino and Montefalco Rosso. With the shift from “Anteprima Sagrantino” to “A Montefalco“, the Consortium of Umbria’s renowned wine seems to have changed its skin, but above all its color. So much so that one wonders whether the new name of the event, launched
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The picture emerging from the 2025 Kalterersee Preview is quite clear. This is a vintage focused on immediate pleasure, with wines built more on “smoothness” than depth. PROFILE OF THE 2025 KALTERERSEE VINTAGE The samples show a common thread: fresh, often crunchy red fruit, accompanied by clean and direct aromatic profiles. The wines are approachable
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Langhe Doc now occupies an increasingly central position in the mosaic of Piedmont denominations. Established in 1994 with the aim of uniting and promoting a territory already world-famous—Langhe and Roero—it has progressively transformed into a key tool for interpreting the Langhe from a contemporary perspective, without losing its link to tradition and without the—often negative—aura
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Barbaresco 2023 arrives at Grandi Langhe 2026 with one of the most complex vintages in recent years in Piedmont. The Winemag scores on the best Barbaresco 2023 capture a vintage less uniform than the previous one, but capable of expressing quality peaks of absolute importance in the Langhe. Nebbiolo from Barbaresco contended with an irregular
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The presentation of Barolo 2022 at Grandi Langhe 2026 marks the “official” market entry of an anticipated and much-discussed vintage. The scores assigned by Winemag to the tasted samples offer an initial qualitative snapshot of a vintage born under extreme weather conditions, with prolonged heat and widespread water stress. BAROLO 2022 HARVEST: HEAT AND ACCELERATED
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Marsala DOC remains one of the most complex great Italian wines to explain. It is often reduced to a stereotyped image: a sweet, “cooking” wine. Linked to the past rather than the present. In reality, production regulated in the province of Trapani—excluding the municipalities of Alcamo, Favignana, and Pantelleria—creates an intricate universe. Here, style, color,
Best Marsala DOC: Scores for Vergine, Superiore, Semisecco, and Dolce Read More »
Best Roero Arneis 2024: the “white Nebbiolo” is the surprise of Grandi Langhe 2026. The Roero Arneis 2024 arrived at Grandi Langhe 2026 with a technical profile that, on paper, did not suggest any particular brilliance. Yet, in the glass, the so-called “white Nebbiolo” showed an ability to interpret the vintage beyond expectations, becoming one
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The best wines of Slovakia are much more than a simple curiosity for Central and Eastern European enthusiasts. The tasting of over 100 labels, with more than 100 Winemag scores and a peak reaching 96/100, reveals a country capable of producing international-level Riesling, Grüner Veltliner, and Frankovka modrá. BEST WINES OF SLOVAKIA: 100+ WINEMAG SCORES
Best Amarone 2021. A strong desire to talk about “Valpolicella” tout-court, at Amarone Opera Prima 2026. As a unified territory. Despite its many facets. Beyond the Amarone 2021 scores, what emerges in Verona from the preview tastings of the latest vintage available for release is an extremely fragmented picture. A tug-of-war of stylistic interpretations by
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Best Rosso di Montalcino 2024, 2023, 2022 at Benvenuto Brunello 2025: here is the Winemag ranking and all the scores. Rosso di Montalcino increasingly confirms itself as an immediate reading of the territory and the vintages. A Tuscan denomination capable of clearly conveying climatic differences and agronomic choices. The tasting of the 2024, 2023, and
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