Our annual preview of the vintages to come from the three big Bs of Italian wine. The image of Burlotto's vines in Verduno is taken from their website.
Every autumn we are grateful to UK Italian wine specialist importers Vinexus for organising a preview of the vintages that are about to be released of Brunello di Montalcino, Barolo and Barbaresco. This year it was Brunello di Montalcino 2017, Barolo 2018 and Barbaresco 2019.
Because of the date sequence, Vinexus is in the habit of presenting the wines in this order, but in retrospect I wished I had tasted the...