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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.
The Cascina Cucco company is located in Serralunga d’Alba, at the foot of the castle of the fourteenth century, which overlooks the entire area of the Langhe of Alba. The valley of Serralunga is considered by many people as one of the most important areas of Barolo for the peculiarities of the oenological products obtainable. The name of our company evokes one of the several cru in Serralunga, that has always been considered among the highest quality ones of the area from which most of our grapes come.
Our small sizes allow an easy management, yet, a family management: his wife Daniela and his brother Elio soon chose to support Mauro dealing, the first with the welcoming of visitors and of the office, and the second, thanks to his experience, with the management of vineyards. The company currently consists of approximately 12 hectares, between La Morra and Monforte d’Alba, and the average annual production is of about 60,000 bottles, of which almost half of Barolo DOCG.
The choice to focus on quality characterizes at all stages of production.
A minor amount of bunches per vine means less stress and more natural rhythms for the plants, which in addition to promoting optimum ripeness of the grapes, they are healthier and more resistant to pests. The treatments are reduced to a minimum, using almost exclusively the traditional sulfur and copper sulphate, also used in organic farming as they have proved to be non–toxic to humans, nor for the environment.
Respect for nature, for life and for our territory, and the search for a balance in the result, are the key elements that guide our choices. It is our philosophy of life, beyond traditionalist or of innovators stereotypes.
Azienda Agricola Barale Fratelli is rooted in the far 1870 when in the Langhe that wine called Barolo had already appeared, promoted by Marquises Falletti and by Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour. This latter was precisely to invite the French oenologist Louis Oudart to develop an innovative style of vinification of Nebbiolo that gave inspiration to the modern production of Barolo.
The first traces of the Barale family in Barolo date back to 1600, as reported in the parish registers. At that time they already owned the vineyards in areas of Castellero, Cannubi, Preda and Costa di Rose.
Today, Sergio Barale and his daughters Eleonora and Gloria have taken over the centuries–old experience of their family. In the wine cellar, with the aim of enhancing the quality of the grapes grown on an area of about 20 hectares, new technologies were purchased. However, now as then, the character of the wines in the Vineyard is forged through assiduous works of green pruning and cluster thinning, are made by hand.
The processes of vinification and aging tend to maintain balance in the components of the fruit with the intent of producing harmonious wines and easily traceable, with their organoleptic characteristics, regarding the grape variety used and their area of origin.
In 1920 Gentleman Lorenzo Scavino began to vinify part of the grapes prodouced in the vineyards by his family, a small peasant reality in the heart of Langhe, in Castiglione Falletto.
His son Alfonso began with enthusiasm to bottle the wine produced and thanks to Luigi’s father, Lorenzo, with perseverance and will, the wines were exported for the first time.
Azienda Agricola Azelia, in the center of the production area of Barolo, today consists of 16 hectares and produces an average of 80,000 bottles per year. Louis is helped by his wife Lorella and their son Lorenzo, who now represents the fifth generation of winemakers. The family management is essential as it allows an extreme accuracy in every step of production.
Great attention is paid to the work in the vineyards. The wine is made in the vineyard, from ancient vines, which produce very few clusters. The low yields are further reduced by green harvesting, which is essential to select the fruits, to have a uniform maturation and an impeccable quality.
Fundamental is a scrupulous attention to the wine cellar where respect for tradition does not exclude the contribution of modern techniques.
We have a country, we have roots that date back to the late eighteenth century.
We have a great–little story to tell, that of our family, our wine cellars, our vineyards, located in the most important municipalities of the Barolo and Barbaresco areas. We will tell it to all the wine lovers who come to visit us and taste our wines.
It is difficult to state with certainty a start date of winemaking, as the vineyards and the farms have always belonged to the Oddero family, as attested by municipal documents of the eigteenth century. We go back with writings, deeds and photographs to our ancestors Giovanni Battista (1794–1874), Lorenzo e Luigi, who at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures started making wine from the grapes grown in their own vineyards in the La Morra municipality, an idyllic village with wide horizons covering all High Langa.
It was thanks to them, that the Oddero wine took the ways of the world, first sold in small barrels and carboys and then from 1878 in the bottle. In 1911 Giacomo Oddero, grandfather of the current Giacomo, participated with pride in the International Exhibition in Turin with his Barolo, taking part in the tasting organized by the Subalpine Wine Club, on the 50th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.
Today, after 150 years of operation, the historic company is managed by the sisters Mariacristina and Mariavittoria, women of wine, who succeeded their father Giacomo and are supported by their young children who give freshness and innovation to the wise tradition.
The Schiavenza company has been operating on the territory of Serralunga d’Alba since 1956.
The activity was started by the brothers Vittorio and Ugo Alessandria and now is followed by his son Luciano Pira, agronomist and winemaker, assisted by his wife Maura and his brother–in–law Walter.
In the past the farm, with its surrounding lands, was owned by the Barolo Charity; the work was done by sharecroppers called "schiavenza", hence the curious name of the company.
Currently, the company covers about eight hectares of vineyards in the territory of Serralunga d’Alba. Moreover, it owns four Piedmontese giornate in the town of Monforte d’Alba, in the hamlet of Perno.
On these grounds, the company produces fine red wines of quality in craftsmanship.
The Ceretto family is one of the major vineyard owners of Piedmont, with more than 160 hectares of property located primarily in the most prized area of Langhe and Roero, including the Barolo and Barbaresco DOCG.
The name Ceretto is synonymous with owned vineyards, care, research and wines that express the true varietal character of the grapes with purity and elegance. The Ceretto family started in the sixties to invest in vineyards, enhancing the importance of terroir and creating different wineries for the production of their cru wines.
The family has 4 independent wineries, each dedicated to specific wines, and each with the name of its specific geographical location:
Bricco Rocche in Castiglione Falletto, where Barolo cru are produced;
Bricco Asili in Barbaresco, home of Barbaresco cru;
Tenuta Monsordo Bernardina in Alba, dedicated to the production of wines from the areas of Langhe and Roero;
I Vignaioli di Santo Stefano in Santo Stefano Belbo, entirely dedicated to the production of Moscato wines.
The Ceretto family were the first in Piedmont to invest in the image of their wine entrusting the design of their labels and bottles to well-known designers. Over time, their attention went further, turning more and more to the visual arts. Then, they began a collaboration with famous artists and architects on many projects aimed to enrich and characterize their properties.
The G.D. Vajra farm owns the best lands in Vergne resort, halfway between Barolo and La Morra. It is a rather large part of the district of Barolo, where wines of great finesse and aromatic complexity are produced.
Aldo Vajra becomes to be interested in the family farm during the years of the university and makes his debut in the difficult year of 72. He runs away early from modernist manufacturers and begins a personal journey, in balance between tradition and modernity.
He produces intact wines, respectful of the terroir, elegant and fresh. With the support of his wife Milena, woman of extraordinary human qualities, he extends the farm area with new vineyards and new varieties, managed according to the criteria of organic farming. Today, the company covers an area of 50 hectares in the municipalities of La Morra, Barolo, Sinio, Serralunga, Novello and Mango.
From its 8 hectares of vineyards located in the heart of Rabajà, a historic and valuable sorì in the territory of Barbaresco, the Cortese family has been producing wine with a great passion for the past three generations, exclusively from self produced grapes. The Rabajà cru offers especially favorable exposure to the south, southwest and expresses the best in terms of microclimate (due to the amphitheater position of vineyards), and soil maturation, giving a product that summarizes in itself all the characteristics of a great wine.
The Cortese family has always manifested a strong link with the terroir of careful and painstaking care of the vineyards from pruning to an attentive selection of the best grapes to achieve the highest level of quality.
In winemaking, the Cortese Company expresses tradition in working, together with modern techniques, all to get those peculiarities typical of the wines of exceptional complexity, finesse and elegance.
Cascina Morassino is a small reality of authentic winegrowers with deep roots in the Langa territory. I had the pleasure to visit it and to meet Mauro and Roberto Bianco, who have been running it for generations, during an in–depth visit to the Langa Hills, starting from Barbaresco and the near Roero, last year, with a cheerful company of sommeliers on the pursuit of tastes and flavors.
Before Giovanni Negro, current owner of Azienda Agricola Negro Angelo e Figli, there was another person ho bore its name. In 1670 Giovanni Domeinico Negro, son of Audino, in the same area where nowadays the Perdaudin estate with its prestigious vineyards is located, owned a farmhouse with oven, farmyard, wine cellar and vine rows.
This historical memory, recorded in historical archives of the municipality of Monteu Roero, remains as an indelible mark of a past that has already become well known, specific of the territory.
Even today, Giovanni Negro and his farm are proud witnesses of the astonishing reproductive capacities of Roero.
Here, between Monteu Roero and Canale, where hills stretch majestically towards the sun, the vineyards and the wineries of Azienda Agricola Negro Angelo e Figli are located: almost fifty hectares cultived with vines, which favor the traditional grape varieties of the area: Arneis, Favorita, Barbera, Nebbiolo, Bondarda and Bracchetto.
At Cascina Riveri, in S. Anna locality, there is the core of the company: the premises of the winery, where wines are produced, fined, the spaces for welcoming those who arrive to learn about products and people who create them, the places where production and market strategies are developed, in a continuous and positive dialogue.
Here at Cascina Riveri, there is real life, that of the family of Giovanni Negro, life that vibrates and that leads this little group of people to the future world.
Here, Giovanni Negro is supported by his wife Marisa and their four children: Gabriele, Angelo, Emanuela and Giuseppe, now all engaged in the company, with which he studies and promotes future projects and implements with pride the current ones. The result of this combination of technology, tradition, young and old generations, is the production of pleasant wines, of outstanding quality, enriched by a strong personality, with intense aromas and complex structures, able to captivate the appreciation of Italy and the whole world.
The Vico family runs with accuracy and courtesy the company that contributed to create the image of quality of the vinegrowing and winemaking activities in Canale and in the whole Roero area. Even this year the success of Rosero is confirmed, the pleasant ros&eactue; wine based on Nebbiolo, but also the other wines express quality and a strong bond with the territory. Outstanding is Chardonnay, whose grapes come from the vineyards in Castiglione Falletto; spicy and full of character is Roero, the main wine of the company.
Marco Porello presents us a series of considerable value dominated by Roero Torretta 2006, that has spent more than year of aging. Confidential and observer, in recent years Marco has given his business a defined outline that can be found in its wines. Rigorous, attentive to tradition, but with a watchful eye on the market and the consumer. His wines contain this philosophy. We would like to point out the value of the Nebbiolo d’Alba, its quality and in particular its price.
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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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via Mazzini, 11 12050
Serralunga d'Alba (Cuneo)
The Cascina Cucco company is located in Serralunga d’Alba, at the foot of the castle of the fourteenth century, which overlooks the entire area of the Langhe of Alba. The valley of Serralunga is...
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Fraz. Annunziata Cascina Nuova, 50 12064
La Morra (Cuneo)
Our small sizes allow an easy management, yet, a family management: his wife Daniela and his brother Elio soon chose to support Mauro dealing, the first with the welcoming of visitors and of the...
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Via Roma, 6 12060
Barolo (Cuneo)
Azienda Agricola Barale Fratelli is rooted in the far 1870 when in the Langhe that wine called Barolo had already appeared, promoted by Marquises Falletti and by Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour....
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Via Alba Barolo, 53 12060
Castiglione Falletto (Cuneo)
In 1920 Gentleman Lorenzo Scavino began to vinify part of the grapes prodouced in the vineyards by his family, a small peasant reality in the heart of Langhe, in Castiglione Falletto.His son...
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Fraz. Santa Maria, 28
La Morra (Cuneo)
We have a country, we have roots that date back to the late eighteenth century.We have a great–little story to tell, that of our family, our wine cellars, our vineyards, located in the most...
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Via Mazzini, 4 12050
Serralunga d'Alba (Cuneo)
The Schiavenza company has been operating on the territory of Serralunga d’Alba since 1956. The activity was started by the brothers Vittorio and Ugo Alessandria and now is followed by his son...
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Località San Cassiano, 34 12051
Alba (Cuneo)
The Ceretto family is one of the major vineyard owners of Piedmont, with more than 160 hectares of property located primarily in the most prized area of Langhe and Roero, including the Barolo and...
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Via delle Viole, 25 12060
Barolo (Cuneo)
The G.D. Vajra farm owns the best lands in Vergne resort, halfway between Barolo and La Morra. It is a rather large part of the district of Barolo, where wines of great finesse and aromatic...
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Strada Rabajà 80
Barbaresco (Cuneo)
From its 8 hectares of vineyards located in the heart of Rabajà, a historic and valuable sorì in the territory of Barbaresco, the Cortese family has been producing wine with a great passion for...
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Strada Bernino, 10 12050
Barbaresco (Cuneo)
Cascina Morassino is a small reality of authentic winegrowers with deep roots in the Langa territory. I had the pleasure to visit it and to meet Mauro and Roberto Bianco, who have been running it...
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Frazione Sant'Anna, 1 12040
Monteu Roero (Cuneo)
Before Giovanni Negro, current owner of Azienda Agricola Negro Angelo e Figli, there was another person ho bore its name. In 1670 Giovanni Domeinico Negro, son of Audino, in the same area where...
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Via Torino, 80 12043
Canale (Cuneo)
The Vico family runs with accuracy and courtesy the company that contributed to create the image of quality of the vinegrowing and winemaking activities in Canale and in the whole Roero area. Even...
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Corso Alba, 71 12043
Canale (Cuneo)
Marco Porello presents us a series of considerable value dominated by Roero Torretta 2006, that has spent more than year of aging. Confidential and observer, in recent years Marco has given his...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA