Anniversario 50 Riserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2044
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised beef (Brasato), fresh egg pasta (Tajarin) with shaved truffles, or roasted wild game accompanied by aged cheeses like Castelmagno.
✨ Technical Specifications
The story of Produttori del Barbaresco is one of the greatest cooperative success stories in the wine world. Founded in 1958 by the local priest, Don Fiorino Marengo, who united nineteen struggling growers to rescue the region's viticulture, the cooperative has become the global benchmark for Nebbiolo. The Anniversario 50 Riserva celebrates a half-century of this historic alliance. Crafted from 100% Nebbiolo grown in the prestigious, mineral-rich clay-limestone soils of Barbaresco, this wine undergoes traditional long maceration on the skins and extensive aging in large Slavonian oak casks (botti). The result is an incredibly elegant and structured red, defined by classic aromas of dried rose petals, sour cherries, tar, and refined earthy spices.
🍾 About the Producer
Widely revered as the gold standard of viticultural cooperatives, Produttori del Barbaresco traces its ideological ancestry to Domizio Cavazza's 1894 Cantine Sociali, before its modern rebirth in 1958 orchestrated by local parish priest Don Fiorino Marengo and nineteen grower families. Today comprising over 50 member-growers managing approximately 120 hectares exclusively planted to Nebbiolo across the commune of Barbaresco, the cooperative oversees quintessential Langhe terroir characterized by calcareous-clay Sant'Agata marls and steep, sun-drenched hillsides. Under the longstanding stewardship of Managing Director Aldo Vacca, Produttori follows an unapologetically traditional cellar regimen: spontaneous temperature-controlled fermentations, month-long skin macerations with submerged caps, and lengthy maturation exclusively in massive neutral Slavonian oak botti. In premier vintages, the cellar vinifies nine legendary single-vineyard crus identically—including Asili, Rabajà, Montestefano, Ovello, and Pajè—to transparently showcase microclimate and soil nuances, yielding structured, classically austere, and exceptionally ageworthy Nebbiolo expressions.
🍇 Grapes
100% Nebbiolo