Ian D’Agata on the Most Recent Vintages of Barbaresco, Part 2:  The Very Exciting Trio of 2021, 2020, and 2019

In this part 2 of Ian D’Agata’s annual report on the brand-new releases of Barbaresco, he covers the new vintages of another 85 wineries producing often outstanding Barbarescos. Read here for the most complete, in-depth and knowledgeable review available today of Barbaresco. Importantly, Barbaresco is also the subject of Ian’s brand-new book, the roughly 400 pages long, Barbaresco Terroir: Grapes Crus People Places that will be available by this coming  February 2025 at www.amazon.com.

by Ian D’Agata

A brief overview

As mentioned in part 1 of this article, the 2021 vintage is looming to be exceptional in Barbaresco. While there were a few green-tinged and fruit-challenged Barbaresco wines, the highs in this vintage are extremely noteworthy overall for the Barbaresco denomination, leading me to suggest that it may actually be that 2021 is better in Barbaresco than Barolo. Not that the latter denomination fared poorly in 2021: not at all, it is a year of magnificent wines in Barolo as well: it’s just that while with Barolo’s wines there is greater regularity across the board with a bevy of exceptional wines (more so than in Barbaresco and not just because in the latter there are more hits and misses), the highest highs are, with the 2021 wines, generally to be had in Barbaresco more so than in Barolo.

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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: iandomenicodagata@outlook.it

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