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June 15, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
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
Kerin O’Keefe evaluates the 2019 Barolo vintage
March 2, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
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January 27, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles
My tribute to the great barolista Luciano Sandrone
January 9, 2023 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
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
Kerin O’Keefe evaluates the 2019 Barolo vintage
October 18, 2022 • Articles • Featured Articles • Wine Reviews
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
January 14, 2021 • Articles
Olivio Cavallotto 1930-2021, pioneer in single-vineyard Barolo and organic viticulture
July 16, 2020 • Articles • Featured Articles
Between March and April of this year, I reviewed 359 Barolos from the fantastic 2016 vintage. The reviews, out now in the latest issue of...
July 15, 2020 • Articles • Italiano
Tra marzo e aprile di quest’anno, ho recensito 359 Barolo della fantastica annata 2016. Le recensioni, ora disponibili...
January 13, 2020 • Articles
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
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
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
Un’annata di assaggi sicuramente molto gratificante, i grandi rossi italiani hanno dimostrato tutto il loro potenziale suscitando...
September 4, 2018 • Articles • Italiano
Giuseppe “Beppe” Rinaldi, uno dei produttori più rispettati delle Langhe, è scomparso domenica 2 settembre all’età di...
September 3, 2018 • Articles
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
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
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
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
Kerin conosce molto bene il vino italiano, lo ha ampiamente dimostrato con precedenti pubblicazioni come “Franco Biondi Santi. Il...
September 1, 2015 • Book Reviews
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The expansion of the Cannubi ‘cru’ could cast “doubt on the credibility of all the vineyard boundaries” in the...
September 26, 2013 • Articles
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
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
This year’s annual Nebbiolo Prima tastings in Alba showcased Barbaresco 2010, Barolo 2009, and the denominations’ Riservas – 2008...
February 7, 2013 • Articles
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
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
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
Refusing to be pigeonholed as either traditionalist or modernist, this historic Piedmontese winery is a staunch believer in blended wines,...
November 1, 2011 • Articles
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
Kerin O’Keefe visits the close and passionate Barolo family that has for generations been producing naturally grown, traditionally...
February 24, 2009 • Articles
Teobaldo Cappellano, the respected and controversial Barolo producer, has died at 65. Cappellano – known to friends as Baldo – was an...
April 1, 2007 • Articles
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
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
A hand-painted Barolo label lampooning Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has become a collector’s item. The label scandal...