The Most Awarded Piemonte Wines of 2027: 27 Bottles the Guides Agree On

Seven guides, 391 awarded wines on our site, and only 27 picked by three or more. Pelissero's Vanotu leads with five.

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The Most Awarded Piemonte Wines of 2027: 27 Bottles the Guides Agree On

Every autumn the Italian wine guides publish their verdicts one by one, and each list makes its own headlines. Now that the last of them is out, the more useful question is which wines keep coming back. We have added the 2027 awards of seven guides to the bottles on Il Vino Bello: 391 Piemonte wines on the site hold at least one. Only 27 of them were picked by three guides or more, and a single Barbaresco was picked by five.

How we counted

The seven guides are Gambero Rosso's Vini d'Italia (Tre Bicchieri), Bibenda from the Fondazione Italiana Sommelier (Cinque Grappoli), DoctorWine's Essential Guide to Italian Wine (the Faccino), Vinibuoni d'Italia (the Corona), the AIS guide Vitae (its four lists of 100 wines), Veronelli's Guida Oro (Stella Polare for 97 points and up, Tre Stelle Oro for 94 to 96) and the Corriere della Sera's I migliori 100 Vini e Vignaioli d'Italia (its Top 100 wines). We count a wine once per guide, and only wines that are on our site. Slow Wine gives its snail to wineries rather than single bottles, so it is not part of this count.

Of the 391 awarded wines, 280 appear in one guide and 84 in two. The 27 below are the ones where at least three panels, tasting separately, reached the same verdict. Each name links to the wine's page, where all its awards are listed.

Five guides: Pelissero's Vanotu

The most awarded Piemonte wine of 2027 is the Barbaresco Vanotu 2023 from Pelissero in Treiso. It holds Tre Bicchieri, Cinque Grappoli, Tre Stelle Oro, a Corona and a place among Vitae's 100 Grandi Vini. It missed only DoctorWine and the Corriere ranking.

Four guides

Two of these five come from outside the Langhe. The Monferace shows how far Grignolino has travelled, a story told in our piece on the grape, and the Ghemme is the only Alto Piemonte wine in the whole group.

Three guides: Barolo

Barolo dominates, with 15 wines here and 17 of the 27 overall, most of them from the 2022 vintage or from 2020 Riserve.

Three guides: Barbaresco and beyond

Two Gavi, a Timorasso, a Nizza and an Alta Langa: if you want an awarded Piemonte bottle that is not Nebbiolo, start here.

Where to taste them this month

Three of the guides hold their public events in the coming weeks. AIS pours all 400 Vitae wines at Vitae in deguSTAZIONE, at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence on Saturday 14 November, from 10:30 to 19:30. Veronelli's preview tasting is on 19 November at the Convento dei Neveri in Bariano, and the guide goes on sale from 25 November. Bibenda's Festa dei 5 Grappoli, with its national presentation and awards, is at the Hotel Rome Cavalieri in Rome on Saturday 28 November.

The individual results are in our round-ups of Tre Bicchieri, Bibenda, DoctorWine and Vinibuoni, the Corriere Top 100, Vitae and Veronelli. We will update this list if later guides change the count.

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