January 29, 2024 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
Barolo 2020 Vintage Report
Kerin O’Keefe evaluates the 2020 Barolo vintage
December 13, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles
Addio Michele
My tribute to the great Michele Chiarlo
June 15, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
Paolo Scavino Bric del Fiasc Barolo Vertical
Held at the winery for kerinokeefe.com on April 11, 2023 Kerin O’Keefe June 2023 ©kerinokeefe.com...
April 21, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
Barolo 2019: The Definitive Report
Kerin O’Keefe evaluates the 2019 Barolo vintage
March 2, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
Time Traveling through Barolo Ravera with Elvio Cogno 2000-2019
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January 27, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles
Remembering Barolo Trailblazer Luciano Sandrone
My tribute to the great barolista Luciano Sandrone
January 9, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
Enrico Serafino Barolo and Barbaresco back to 1949: Indestructible Wines
Tasting decades-old fine wines is always a humbling, often memorable experience. Tasting a selection of older vintages of Enrico...
October 21, 2022 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
Barolo 2019: A Sneak Peek
Kerin O’Keefe evaluates the 2019 Barolo vintage
October 18, 2022 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
Barolo 2018: Finesse, fragrance and freshness
The 2018 Barolos boast elegance, energy and enticing aromatics. Defined by extremely refined, well-integrated tannins and balance,...
January 14, 2021 • Articles • Featured Articles • Italiano
Olivio Cavallotto 1930-2021: pioniere del Barolo e della viticoltura biologica
Olivio Cavallotto 1930-2021: pioniere del Barolo e della viticoltura biologica
January 14, 2021 • Articles
Olivio Cavallotto 1930-2021: Pioneer in single-vineyard Barolo and organic viticulture
Olivio Cavallotto 1930-2021, pioneer in single-vineyard Barolo and organic viticulture
July 16, 2020 • Articles • Featured Articles
Barolo 2016: A Modern Day Classic
Between March and April 2020, I reviewed 359 Barolos from the fantastic 2016 vintage. The reviews, out now in the latest issue of Wine...
July 15, 2020 • Articles • Italiano
Barolo 2016: un moderno Classico
Tra marzo e aprile di quest’anno, ho recensito 359 Barolo della fantastica annata 2016. Le recensioni, ora disponibili...
January 13, 2020 • Articles
Barolo 2016 preview
Living just an hour drive from Piedmont, I spend a lot of time in the region, and travel there for days at a time at least nine or ten...
January 6, 2020 • Articles • Italiano
Il momento migliore per bere quel Barolo? Forse proprio adesso!
Uno dei più grandi equivoci sul Barolo è che bisogna aspettare decenni prima che i vini siano pronti da bere. Sebbene una volta questo...
March 18, 2019 • Articles • Italiano
Bunch thinning – too much of a good thing. Diradamento: sicuri che sia una cosa buona?
The English version of this article has been published here: https://www.winemag.com/2019/03/14/is-there-really-a-benefit-to-crop-thinning/...
December 21, 2018 • Articles • Italiano
Vini italiani: i miei top 30 del 2018
Un’annata di assaggi sicuramente molto gratificante, i grandi rossi italiani hanno dimostrato tutto il loro potenziale suscitando...
September 4, 2018 • Articles • Italiano
Addio Giuseppe Rinaldi (in italiano)
Giuseppe “Beppe” Rinaldi, uno dei produttori più rispettati delle Langhe, è scomparso domenica 2 settembre all’età di...
September 3, 2018 • Articles
Addio Giuseppe Rinaldi
One of Barolo’s most outspoken and respected producers, Giuseppe “Beppe” Rinaldi passed away on Sunday, September 2nd, at the age of...
January 22, 2018 • Articles • Italiano
Bruno Giacosa è deceduto a 88 anni
Oggi il mondo del vino italiano ha perso una delle sue leggende, Bruno Giacosa, all’età di 88 anni. I Barolo e Barbaresco di Bruno...
May 19, 2016 • Articles
Barolo 2012: Balanced, Approachable and Enjoyable
Having recently returned from Barolo where I blind-tasted over 300 of the just released 2012s, it’s time to weigh in on the vintage,...
October 27, 2015 • Articles
Italy’s Most Collectible Wines
Thanks to a string of outstanding vintages over the last two decades, Italy’s most celebrated wine regions are on a roll: Barolo...
October 23, 2015 • Italiano
Barolo e Barbaresco, il re e la regina dei vini italiani raccontati da Kerin O’Keefe (di Roberto Giuliani)
Kerin conosce molto bene il vino italiano, lo ha ampiamente dimostrato con precedenti pubblicazioni come “Franco Biondi Santi. Il...
September 1, 2015 • Book Reviews
A measured, informative and very readable tour of Barolandia (by Nicolas Belfrage)
O’Keefe is a Bostonian wine journalist and author (published books include Franco Biondi Santi: The Gentleman of Brunello and Brunello di...
June 24, 2015 • Articles • Book Reviews • Interview
Barolo and Barbaresco: A Conversation with Kerin O’Keefe (by Evan Dawson)
The best wine writers are willing to offend if it means telling the truth. That’s easier said than done. When a writer publishes an...
February 10, 2015 • Book Reviews
Barolo and Barbaresco: the King and Queen of Italian wine (by Charles S. Taylor)
I would have welcomed O’Keefe’s profiles when I started my Barolo Odyssey. Her accurate profiles of producers I know make me...
December 4, 2014 • Book Reviews
Books of the year 2014: Drink, from wine to gin (by Henry Jeffreys)
Barolo and Barbaresco: The King and Queen of Italian Wine by Kerin O’Keefe (University of California Press, £25) had me reaching for...
October 17, 2014 • Book Reviews
A New Book on Barolo & Barbaresco (by Tom Maresca)
The University of California Press has just published Kerin O’Keefe’s Barolo and Barbaresco: The King and Queen of Italian Wines (346...
October 3, 2014 • Book Reviews
A bounty of books about wine and spirits
The great wines of Italy’s Piedmont have become important enough that it’s surprising a book like Kerin O’Keefe’s “Barolo and...
September 9, 2014 • Book Reviews
A Great, New Book on Barolo and Barbaresco (by Ed McCarthy)
O’Keefe began writing about Italian wine full-time in 2002, writing some excellent articles in Decanter, a British wine magazine; she...
February 4, 2014 • Book Reviews
Sip and turn a page (by Eric Asimov)
Among the world’s great wine regions, the Piedmont in northwestern Italy, home of Barolo and Barbaresco, has lagged far behind in...
October 11, 2013 • Articles
“Shameful” Ruling Over Barolo Borders
The expansion of the Cannubi ‘cru’ could cast “doubt on the credibility of all the vineyard boundaries” in the...
September 26, 2013 • Articles
Bruno Giacosa: Pioneering Precision in Piedmont
No discussion of Barolo and Barbaresco would be complete without mention of Bruno Giacosa, one of Italy’s most esteemed producers. Paolo...
May 30, 2013 • Articles
Bartolo Mascarello
The classically crafted Barolos of Bartolo Mascarello are cult favorites of Barolophiles around the world. Unlike many of today’s top...
May 20, 2013 • Articles
Barolo 2009 and Riserva 2007
This year’s annual Nebbiolo Prima tastings in Alba showcased Barbaresco 2010, Barolo 2009, and the denominations’ Riservas – 2008...
February 7, 2013 • Articles
Q & A with Gaia Gaja
Gaia Gaja oversees the day-to-day running of her family’s prestigious 154-year old estate in Piedmont. Are you adjusting your...
January 4, 2013 • Articles
Conterno: Tradition Underscores Celebrated Barolo
Barolo doesn’t get any better than Giacomo Conterno. Kerin O’Keefe explains why. The prized wines include Cascina Francia and...
June 3, 2012 • Articles
Italian legend Aldo Conterno dies
Legendary Barolo producer Aldo Conterno passed away in Monforte d’Alba in Piedmont at the age of 81. Aldo Conterno, who played a crucial...
April 1, 2012 • Articles
Pio Cesare
Refusing to be pigeonholed as either traditionalist or modernist, this historic Piedmontese winery is a staunch believer in blended wines,...
November 1, 2011 • Articles
Bruno Giacosa
This eminent Barolo producer has been around the block more than once since starting in wine 68 years ago. Kerin O’Keefe pays the great...
September 1, 2009 • Articles
Cavallotto. The road less traveled
Kerin O’Keefe visits the close and passionate Barolo family that has for generations been producing naturally grown, traditionally...
February 24, 2009 • Articles
Cult Barolo producer Teobaldo Cappellano dies
Teobaldo Cappellano, the respected and controversial Barolo producer, has died at 65.
April 1, 2007 • Articles
Gaja Barbaresco over four decades: 1961-2003
Angelo Gaja, one of Italy’s most charismatic and successful winemakers, is credited not only with drawing Barbaresco out of obscurity...
March 14, 2005 • Articles
Barolo patriarch Bartolo Mascarello dies (by Paolo Tenti)
Italy’s Bartolo Mascarello – the patriarch of Barolo – died at his home in Barolo on Saturday at the age of 78. A teenage...
July 31, 2002 • Articles
Anti-Berlusconi label becomes collector’s item
A hand-painted Barolo label lampooning Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has become a collector’s item. The label scandal...