Barolo 2022 Vintage, Part 2 (Estates from L-V included), Plus Some 2021s, and the Riserva 2020 Wines: Good News, Bad News

by Ian D’Agata

The 2022 vintage isn’t going to go down in history as one of Barolo’s best ever, but at the end of the day there were some good to excellent wines made. By picking carefully and choosing well, 2022 can offer quite the stash of earlier-drinking Barolos that will give lots of pleasure, bu that should not be taken as the common coin of the vintage. This report, part 2 of a two-part series devoted to the subject (part 1 was published here on the Ian D’Agata Wine Review last week) aims to help you wade through treacherous waters, and that is, allow me, more important than ever before. To allow you to make informed choices in a world in which just about every entry-level wine is now being scored 95 has immense value and it is a job and a calling everybody here at the Ian D’Agata Wine Review takes very seriously. Clearly, we’ll get evaluations wrong too, but we will try our best to do right by you, always. So raise a glass of Barolo with me to having the last laugh.

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Ian D’Agata
Ian D’Agata

Ian D’Agata is an internationally famous, multi-award winning author who has been speaking and writing about wine for thirty years. His latest books (Native Wine Grapes of Italy, Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs, Italy’s Grapes and Wines: The definitive Compendium Region by Region and the most recent, Barolo Terroir) are considered the bibles of Italian wine and have received numerous prestigious awards such as the Louis Roederer International Wine Awards “Book of the Year” title, the Gourmand World Book Awards “Best European Wine Book” and being named to the “Best Wine Books of the Year” lists of newspapers and magazines such as the NY Times, the Financial Times and Food & Wine. For eight years, Ian has also been the co-author of the Italy section in Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Book of Wine, the world’s best- selling wine guide with 46 editions to date and over 12 Million copies sold all over the world; he has since been also put in charge of the Alsace and Malta sections.
He is the is currently the President of Ian D’Agata Wine Culture, one of China’s wine education platforms, that includes the Ian D’Agata Wine Review and the Ian D’Agata Wine Academy. Ian is a former staff writer at Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar, Contributing Editor of Decanter, and Senior Editor of Vinous. His writings have always focused on the wines of Italy, France, China and Canada, for which he has won numerous international awards and accolades, including the Comitato Grandi Cru d’Italia “Best Youngest Wine Journalist of Italy” and the “Best Wine Journalist of Italy” awards, as well as Canada’s 2018 VQA award (Out of Ontario section) and 2017 Cuvée Award of Excellence.
Intensely devoted to the research and study of native wine grapes, Ian was officially named in 2015 to Italy’s prestigious Accademia della Vite e del Vino (Italy’s official association of wine academicians, researchers, and university professors) and is currently the Vice President of the Association Internationale des Terroirs.

Contacts: Instagram: @ian_dagata

Email: ian.dagata@iandagatawine.com

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