Vintage 2023 will always be known as the year in which violent waves of peronospora – aka downy mildew – attacked whole swathes of European vineyards. In Barbaresco, however, it is remembered as the year of the heatwave.
The vintage came on the heels of a hot vintage that had been made worse by a drought that began back in 2021. Several producers reported in 2022 that they feared their vines were literally dying...
