Barolo
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised beef, rich truffle-infused pasta, and mature hard cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Frescobaldi family represents over 700 years of Florentine winemaking history, famously supplying wine to the Renaissance court, historic artists like Donatello, and the English Royal Family. While historically rooted in the rolling hills of Tuscany, the name Frescobaldi is synonymous with the pinnacle of Italian viticultural nobility. In the context of Piedmont, a region world-renowned for its dramatic alpine foothills, continental climate, and calcareous-clay soils, the focus shifts to the creation of deeply structured, elegant red wines. Traditional winemaking in this northern terroir emphasizes long maceration periods and patient aging in oak casks, capturing the intense aromatics, high acidity, and powerful tannins that define the region's prestigious red heritage.
🍾 About the Producer
Tracing its viticultural origins to 1308, Marchesi Frescobaldi is an iconic Florentine noble dynasty that has shaped Tuscan winemaking across thirty generations. Spanning celebrated historical holdings—including Castello Nipozzano in Chianti Rùfina, Castello Pomino, Tenuta Castiglioni, CastelGiocondo in Montalcino, and the social viticulture initiative on the penal island of Gorgona—the family stewards diverse terroirs ranging from galestro-rich hills to cool-climate Apennine elevations. Frescobaldi practices certified sustainable viticulture under Tuscany's AgriQualità protocol, tailoring canopy management and soil stewardship to site-specific conditions. In the cellar, their philosophy honors regional typicity while embracing technical precision, vinifying with calibrated temperature control and aging across fine-grained oak barriques and traditional casks. The portfolio showcases an expansive spectrum of expressions: high-elevation Chardonnay and Pinot Nero in the pioneering Pomino Benefizio Riserva and Leonia Brut sparkling wines, mineral-driven Ansonica-Vermentino field blends from Gorgona, alongside age-worthy, structured Sangiovese icons such as Nipozzano Riserva and CastelGiocondo Brunello di Montalcino.
🍇 Grapes
100% Nebbiolo