2025 Barolo Harvest – Vintage Analysis The 2025 Barolo harvest promises to be of excellent quality, characterized by healthy, balanced Nebbiolo grapes of great standing. Despite a complex climate, marked by periods of intense heat alternating with significant rainfall, the vineyards showed remarkable adaptability. This allowed for full phenolic ripeness and a very interesting balance …
Vintage 2023 – Barolo and Barbaresco Climatic Trends The 2023 vintage was marked by a mild winter with low rainfall, followed by a cool and rainy spring. Abundant rainfall between late April and early June slowed down vegetative growth and increased the risk of fungal diseases like downy mildew, requiring prompt and attentive vineyard management. …
Vintage 2022 Climatic Trends The 2022 vintage was characterized by a mild and particularly dry winter, with below-average rainfall and higher-than-average seasonal temperatures. The lack of snow and rain limited the soil’s water reserves, raising concerns for the upcoming growing season. Spring continued with fair weather and low rainfall, resulting in budbreak in line with …
Vintage 2024 Climatic Trends The 2024 vintage was characterized by intense and complex weather patterns: Winter and Spring (February–June): This was an exceptionally rainy season, with over 900 mm of total rainfall—almost three times more than in 2022–23. This abundance effectively compensated for previous years of drought. However, these heavy rains delayed key phenological stages …
The 2021 vintage began with a mild winter, albeit one rich in precipitation, including snowfall, which ensured an excellent water supply that proved essential for the continuation of the growing season, which turned out to be the driest of recent years. Vegetative growth resumed regularly and according to traditional timing, therefore not earlier than usual …
The 2020 vintage began with no particular issues in winter, when temperatures were mild and precipitations and snowfalls few and far between. The first part of spring was relatively dry and sunny, ensuring a homogeneous resumption of plant growth, which began at the end of February and ended – for the later-ripening varieties – towards …
Unlike last year, which was particularly precocious, the 2019 vintage will be remembered for its decidedly more conventional course. The year in the vineyard began slowly due to the winter season lasting until February. This resulted in a delay in the arrival of spring, which brought about a period of rain and low temperatures until …
The 2018 vintage opened with a long winter with plenty of rainfall, restoring the soil’s water supply which had diminished due to the weather conditions in the previous year. The winter season extended until the beginning of March, with temperatures which were lower than in recent years. This led to a gradual, slow resumption of …
The 2017 vintage growing year will be remembered for its hot climate, and in particular sparse rainfall. The winter was mild, with only a few snowfalls, while spring was marked by some rain and above-average temperatures for the season. This further facilitated the vine’s vegetative development, which immediately proved to be ahead of time and …
The 2016 vintage was certainly one of the longest-lasting in recent years. Signs of the vegetative cycle being so long first appeared at the beginning of the season, when the mild temperatures and low rainfall in January and early February confirmed the trend that had already been seen during the first part of the winter. …
The 2015 vintage began with a winter marked by plenty of snow, providing the soil with an excellent supply of water. Combined with mild spring temperatures from February on, this factor brought forward the vegetative cycle, which meant that bud break was earlier than in 2014, and the same can be said for flowering, which …
Despite its having been one of the most complex to manage in the vineyard in recent years, the favourable end to the 2014 vintage proved to be pleasantly surprising in terms of the quality of the grapes. Observing the climatic pattern, it can be noted that the growing degree days were in line with the …