Piedmont

Barolo and Barbaresco, 1945 to today. The latest vintages, in the buyer’s words:

• 2023BaroloThe 2023 Barolos are still in cask, but the season is known: a mild, wet spring, intense heat in July and August, and hail in parts of the Barolo zone, especially La Morra, that cut yields hard. Early reports point to fresh, mid-weight wines with lifted…
• 2022BaroloOne of the hottest, driest seasons on record, yet the wines are better than the weather suggests: Nebbiolo's late ripening and some well-timed August rain gave ripe, generous Barolos with surprising freshness and polished tannins. These are not long-haul…
• 2021BaroloA benchmark season. A cool, dry spring held back the vines, a warm summer with timely rain let them ripen slowly, and a long, luminous autumn brought the fruit in at full maturity with the acidity intact. The result is classic Barolo in the lineage of 2016…
• 2023BarbarescoReleased in early 2026, the 2023 Barbarescos come from a season of extremes — a wet spring, a very hot midsummer and localised hail — and show it: the wines are fresh, mid-weight and aromatic, variable in depth from site to site. The careful producers made…
• 2022BarbarescoA hot, dry season that Nebbiolo handled better than most grapes. The Barbarescos are ripe and generous, with rounded tannins and more freshness than the weather suggested, especially from the higher sites of Neive and Treiso. Approachable early; drink over…
• 2021BarbarescoAn outstanding, classic vintage: a cool spring, a warm summer, a long, bright autumn, and fruit picked at full maturity with all its acidity. The wines combine perfume, structure and length in a way the zone achieves only a few times a decade. Buy for the…

The estates we import ourselves from the region, each with a page of its own.

• Fratelli Barale
• Raineri
• Vigneti Repetto
• Cristian Boffa
• Paride Iaretti

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