Barolo: New and Recent Releases, Part 2

by Ian D’Agata

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This is the second instalment in the annual Barolo new and recent releases. Most of the wines described are of the 2018 and 2017 vintages, with a smattering of 2016s, 2015s, 2014s and even a few late-released 2013s, but we even have a few 2019s included, wines that are in bottle and waiting to be released officially next year. Overall, the song remains the same: 2019 is a very promising vintage of very pretty wines; 2018 is a difficult vintage where you need to pick and choose carefully but there are many wines that are better than expected; 2017 is ven more difficult than 2018 and I would buy very little if anything (though as always there are exceptions); 2016 is one of the greatest Barolo vintages of all time and 2015 is not far behind it; 2014 was mostly disappointing but what successful wines were made are really very good; and 2013 is a year of excellent highly refined, very classic Barolos.

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Ian D'Agata

伊安·达加塔在葡萄酒领域耕耘超过30年,在葡萄酒品评、葡萄酒科研写作和葡萄酒教育等方面,都取得了杰出的成果,在葡萄酒行业和葡萄酒爱好者中,享有世界性声望。作为享誉国际的葡萄酒作家,他最近的两本著作《意大利原生葡萄品种》《意大利原生葡萄品种风土》被公认为意大利葡萄酒领域的权威著作;前者荣获2015年Louis Roederer国际葡萄酒作家大奖赛“年度最佳书籍奖”,他是唯一获此殊荣的意大利葡萄酒作家,并入选《洛杉矶时报》、《金融时报》、《纽约时报》评选的“年度葡萄酒书籍”榜单;后者被《纽约时报》和美国的Food & Wine杂志提名为年度最佳葡萄酒书籍。

Ian D’Agata has been writing and educating about wines for over thirty years. Internationally recognized as an distinguished expert, critic and writer on many wine regions, his two most recent, award winning books Native Wine Grapes of Italy and Italy's Native Wine Grape Terroirs (both published by University of California Press) are widely viewed as the "state of the art" textbooks on the subject. The former book won the Louis Roederer International Wine Awards Book of the Year in 2015 and was ranked as the top wine books of the year for the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times and the New York Times, while the latter was named among the best wine books of the year by Food & Wine Magazine and the NY Times.[:]

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