Type: Red

Vintage: 2022

Grape variety: Nebbiolo

Country: Italy

Region: Piedmont

Dave has been working with Ronchi fruit since 2020, using it as a valuable blending component in the ‘Recta Pete’ Barbaresco. This is how he discovers new cru vineyards worthy of singe vineyard labels. Since 2020 he has been monitoring the quality and making improvements in the vineyard so as to reach a level where he can present it as a single vineyard wine. In 2022 he achieved that quality level. It’s an east facing block, receiving only morning sun and it performed beautifully in this vintage. 1,260 bottles produced.

"The 2022 Barbaresco Ronchi is superb, clearly one of the wines of the year. Dark, ample and enveloping, the 2022 impresses with its virile intensity. Blackberry, gravel, incense, scorched earth and dried herbs capture a dark, somber expression of Nebbiolo. Muscular tannins wrap it all together in style. Impressive. Drinking window: 2026-2042."
95 pts, Antonio Galloni, Vinous, October 2025