Bolgheri's 2022s tasted

Monday 16 June 2025 • 4 min read
Bolgheri vineyards and the sea

Thirty-one of Bolgheri’s 73 wine producers sent their 2022s to be shown at this year’s tasting in London. So which showed best? Above, Bolgheri vineyards sloping down towards the coast (credit: Linda Vukaj-Aicod, courtesy of the Bolgheri Consorzio).

They must have been worried in Bolgheri by the lack of rainfall that persisted right through winter, spring and even summer until storms in mid August at last brought some relief to vines which, we were promised in the tasting booklet, ‘demonstrated their remarkable resilience, successfully withstanding the initial water shortage and efficiently absorbing and metabolising the rainfall as quickly as...