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What strikes coming at La Scolca Estate, in addition to the ancient tower overlooking the house, the pleasantness of the atmosphere that is felt, everything takes place in harmony and with the punctuality that only well–tested mechanisms may show.
La Scolca Estate was purchased between 1917 and 1919 by the great grandfather of the current owner Giorgio Soldati, who now runs the company with her daughter Chiara Soldati, fifth generation with a look down to the third millennium.
La Scolca is then the oldest company in the area, for the continuity of management by the same family, but at the same time the most modern.
Giorgio has proven to be a valuable and imaginative innovative interpreter: his is the creation of wines and sparkling wines of success, without ever betraying the loyalty to the land of Gavi and to the Cortese grape variety.
But the most difficult task that they have assumed, together with her daughter, was to maintain the leadership gained by the company over the years further enhancing the image and reputation of La Scolca with an all Piedmontese willingness and the philosophy of the highest quality possible.
Cascina Val di Prete owes its name to the exiled bishop of Asti, who lived there in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1977, Bartolomeo Roagna and his wife Carolina bought the farm in Val del Prete and began their work of agronomic conversion of the land, replacing in this way the wheat fields with vineyards, creating a beautiful natural amphitheater. The company today is managed by the eldest son, Mario, a skilled winemaker and a great interpreter of a territory rich in history and winemaking tradition.
The farm of Pasquero house is located in Bricco Gatti, on the top of a hill since the beginning of the twentieth century. In line with the peasant spirit of the place, the Tarabra–Pasquero family has been cultivating owned lands with mixed coltures and a high fragmentation of land. All this was enough, at the time, for the decent sustenance of a rural family.
Before Tarabra and then Maggiorino, continue a dignified life made of daily challenges and in harmony with nature.
Pinin is considered one of the sages of the village, remembered for his high stature, also moral, and for his mentality of sweeping views. Maggiorino is a great lover of horses, and in addition to those towed to the rural labor he cultivates a passion for those to cart and ponies for his children.
The true soul of the company remains, as often happens, Clementina, the daughter of Pinin and wife of Maggiorino, she structures and educates the entire household and still follows, now with reassured eye, the work done by her son Michelangelo.
In the heart of the philosophy that runs the company there is the research of the highest quality obtainable in respect of the tradition of the place. The human passion of the winemaker is translated into projects and long–term investments, into the patience to wait for the soil to be ready, for vines to grow, for grapes to mature – once a year – and that wine is fined.
In 1999, Paolo De Marchi and his son Luca dusted off the long Piedmontese family tradition in order to revive the legendary wines of Northern Piedmont. The first wine of the vintage, the 2004, was created in 2006.
Proprietà Sperino now has eight hectares of vineyard, at the foot of Mount Rosa. 6 are located in Lessona and are divided into the Belvedere, Ormeggio, Castagnola, Rava and Covà grape varieties. The remaining two and a half hectares are the Madonna degli Angeli grape variety in the Forte district of the Bramaterra area.
The Italy–France axis is part of the story of Gillardi: Giovanni Battista emigrated from Piedmont to Provence in late 1890. Here a trade in wine began, but his great attachment to the land of origin brought him to the Langhe, where he started to produce Dolcetto grapes.
The turning point was in 1923, with the purchase of Cascina Corsaletto. Here, his son Giacomo continued the work of study on a magic land for soil, exposure and position.
Only in 1980, Giovanni Battista, son of Giacomo, with the young Giacolino, oenologist at the school of Alba, began the production in the bottle.
The wineries of the Langhe are rich in history and tradition, and often are custodians of the valuable Barolo. No exception to the cellar of Livia Fontana in Castiglione Falletto, an eight–hectare estate that produces: Nebbiolo for Barolo, Barbera, Dolcetto and Arneis. The vineyards are cultivated with particular attention to the natural balance of the soil, with full manual processes, from pruning to harvest.
Respect for tradition, the pursuit of quality and love for the land are the points of strength of this company.
The estate has been owned by the Fontana family for seven generations and currently is followed by Livia together with Renzo and their children Michele and Lorenzo.
For over five generations, Claudio Fenocchio, owner with his brothers and winemaker, explains that our company produces, vinifies and ages great wines from grapes coming from its own vineyards in the heart of the typical area of Barolo. My great–great grandfather Giovanni, the progenitor of my family, used to say: everyone makes wine in the same way, simply because it has to be done so, it is not up to us to change a method, a culture.
The Barolo of the Fenocchio company is achieved through a very long maceration, not less than ten days, without the use of rotary macerators.
We do not use shortcuts: fermentation is completely natural, Claudio continues. The work is carried out completely by the indigenous microflora, without added yeasts. The temperature remains constant only through the daily pumping.
Barolo is a noble and demanding wine, which is achieved without force, without acceleration, according to its times and its rules. It was created to be waited and to evolve over time.
Our Barolo, Claudio says, remains for five months in stainless steel vats and two years in oak casks of large capacity (up to 50 hl) and aged in bottle for a year. Therefore, the steps in barrels, that would be overly flavored, are avoided, so as to maintain as much as possible the unique character of this wine. The passage of time confers complex and intriguing aromas, for palates ready to seize the pleasure of never predictable aspects, of great charisma.
The Fenocchio brothers personally take care of their vineyards in the processing that is performed with modern techniques, designed to preserve the ecological balance and with great respect for the environment. The meticulous and attentive work, without too much reduction in productivity: around 55 quintals per hectare for Barolo DOCG Villero and 70 quintals, instead, for Barolo DOCG Cannubi and the Barolo DOCG Bussia.
A balanced yield, not excessive nor fiercely reduced, involves a nice balance between concentration of tannins and coloring matter of wine, without penalizing the finesse of the wine. Barolo is a wine that gets into your heart, stems from a unique land, to remain a unique and inimitable wine.
Barolo. Langhe. Piemonte. Italy.
Ernesto, Giacomo, Ferruccio Grimaldi.
Three generations that held each other by the hand. And with their hands have given life to the land. For love for wine.
Always in the vineyard, day after day, smelling the wind, savoring the waiting, looking away. Back on the fields and eyes toward the infinite.
Barolo is the king of wines because requires the most valuable asset of kings: time.
Today, Ferruccio Grimaldi runs the company that bears his father’s name. Boots on his feet, nose in the glass, hands that tell a family and peasant wine. The elegance is in the balance and in anticipation. In the sweetness of view enjoyed in the winery: Langhe and castles, vineyards and furrows. Man and nature.
The Corino brothers divided the property of their father Giovanni into two separate companies at the beginning of 2006. The company of Renato is located in the Arborina area about 1 km from the original company. Renato produces exclusive Barbera Vigna Pozzo and Barolo Vigneto Rocche. Barolo Arborina, normal Barolo, Barolo Vecchie Vigne, Dolcetto and Barbera are produced by both the Corino companies.
In 1976 the first approaches in the wine industry began for Domenico Clerico, currently owner with his wife, Giuliana. At the time, the father of Domenico produced grapes that bestowed to the still existing Barolo Lands Cooperative Winery. The company covering approximately 4/5 hectares of land, in that year passed, for reasons of health of his father, to Domenico in agreement with his wife, to start a new experience. Given that, in those days, to produce grapes and sell it was not very profitable, he started making wine. In 1981 he purchased a small plot of land in Ginestra, Ciabot Mentin Ginestra, in 1990 Pajana and in 1995 Mosconi – Barolo Percristina. With much effort, with good will and anger he has come to build a company that now has about 21 hectares of vineyards, 18 of which in production, for a total of about 90,000 bottles of wine divided into Langhe Dolcetto, Visad, Barbera d’Alba, Trevigne and the three cru of Barolo.
The Pio Cesare company was founded in 1881 by our great–great grandfather, Pio Cesare (Pio as name, and Cesare as surname).
Pio Cesare was among the first in the second half of the nineteenth century to believe in the great potential of Barolo, Barbaresco and of other great wines of the Langhe, and was among the first to produce them and making them known. For five generations, we have been making our wines in our ancient cellars in Alba, crossed and enclosed by the old Roman walls of the Town. We have recently completed a massive renovation, with large investments in technology, which has enabled us to enhance more and more the historic and architectural importance of our cellars, the only ones left in the Historic Center of the Town of Alba.
The Nebbiolo grape, since immemorial time, is the symbol and the most valuable vine of the Langhe of Alba’s viticulture, and, when it finds the right combination with a terroir of great vocation it is able to express itself at sublime levels in a wine with a strong personality, intensity of aromas, great velvety tannins and the possibility of a great evolution and durability over time.
The members of the Giuseppe Mascarello family have been dealing with viticulture for over a century and a half, first as stewards of the Marchioness Giulia Colbert Faletti of Barolo, in the management of Cascina Manescotto in La Morra municipality, then, towards the end of the nineteenth century, on their own.
In the course of its story, the Luigi Einaudi Estates have grown by acquiring numerous vineyards always chosen respecting the rule that a great wine can only come from a great vineyard and a great terroir; a clear example is one of its first acquisitions, the San Luigi cru in Dogliani, and one of the most recent, the Cannubi cru in Barolo.
To have quality as first objective is of course also the rule of the Einaudi estate’s winery and the wines reflect the tradition of Langa enriched by recent important innovations in the work in the vineyard and in the wine cellar. The numerous recognitions that the Einaudi wines have received by the press of the industry and by the major national and international guides confirm that the road of quality always leads to great results.
The line is opened by Dogliani DOCG in two versions, Vigna Tecc Dolcetto di Dogliani Superior from the selection of older crus, and Filari from the best vineyards, in effect. To follow, last but not least, Dolcetto di Dogliani "Classico" coming from the grapes blends of all the Estates.
The "PODERI ALDO CONTERNO" farm is located in Monforte d’Alba in Bussia Soprana locality, the heart of the typical zone of Barolo wine.
Currently, the company that makes wine only out of its own grapes, consists of approximately 25 hectares of vineyards. Much of the land, which is located at an altitude of about 400 meters above sea level, has an exposure towards South and South–West and consists of layers of more or less compact sand of gray–brown color, alternating white and bluish–green calcareous marls.
The fermentation is carried out in stainless steel vats, at controlled temperature. For the aging of Barolo they adopt only traditional large Slavonian oak barrels, while for the other wines barriques of French oak are used.
For over 100 years the Rosso family has owned the cru: Cerretta, La Serra, Broglio, Meriame, Sorano, Costa Bella, Lirano and Damiano. In the early 80s, Giovanni Rosso refurbished most of the vineyards with very modern facilities, capable of producing only grapes of great quality.
In 2001, at the age of 27 years, his son David, winemaker and with important experiences, decided to personally take care of winemaking and of the fermentation of wines with a single objective: wine should be a perfect copy of its terroir. The land, the "magic" one of Serralunga d’Alba, is one of the best in the world.
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Strada per Rovereto, 170/r 15066
Gavi (Alessandria)
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Strada Santuario, 2 12040
Priocca (Cuneo)
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Via Bricco Gatti, 16 12040
Priocca (Cuneo)
The farm of Pasquero house is located in Bricco Gatti, on the top of a hill since the beginning of the twentieth century. In line with the peasant spirit of the place, the Tarabra–Pasquero...
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Via Orolungo, 38 13853
Lessona (Biella)
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Località Corsaletto, 69 12060
Farigliano (Cuneo)
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Via Pugnane, 12 12060
Castiglione Falletto (Cuneo)
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Loc. Bussia, 72 1206
Monforte d'Alba (Cuneo)
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Via L.Einaudi, 8 12060
Barolo (Cuneo)
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Borgata Pozzo, 49a 12064
La Morra (Cuneo)
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Località Manzoni, 67 12065
Monforte d'Alba (Cuneo)
In 1976 the first approaches in the wine industry began for Domenico Clerico, currently owner with his wife, Giuliana. At the time, the father of Domenico produced grapes that bestowed to the...
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Via Cesare Balbo, 6 12051
Alba (Cuneo)
The Pio Cesare company was founded in 1881 by our great–great grandfather, Pio Cesare (Pio as name, and Cesare as surname).Pio Cesare was among the first in the second half of the nineteenth...
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Strada del Grosso, 1 12060
Castiglione Falletto (Cuneo)
The Nebbiolo grape, since immemorial time, is the symbol and the most valuable vine of the Langhe of Alba’s viticulture, and, when it finds the right combination with a terroir of great vocation...
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Borgata Gombe, 31 12063
Dogliani (Cuneo)
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Loc. Bussia, 48 12065
Monforte d'Alba (Cuneo)
The "PODERI ALDO CONTERNO" farm is located in Monforte d’Alba in Bussia Soprana locality, the heart of the typical zone of Barolo wine. Currently, the company that makes wine only out of its own...
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Località Baudana, 6 12050
Serralunga d'Alba (Cuneo)
For over 100 years the Rosso family has owned the cru: Cerretta, La Serra, Broglio, Meriame, Sorano, Costa Bella, Lirano and Damiano. In the early 80s, Giovanni Rosso refurbished most of the...
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