An update on this just-released, highly anticipated vintage, plus some 2019s, 2018s and 2015s well worth seeking out. Above, sunset over Novello.
In early November 2024, I gave you an early look at vintage 2021 Barolo after the Vinexus tasting in London, but soon after that event – at which most of the wines shown were cask samples – I went to the Langhe to taste the final wines and talk to the producers.
The main trait of this vintage (described in much more detail in Barolo 2021 – frost, hail and drought) is its mild winter with rain, and...