Casotto Riserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised beef (Brasato al Barolo), fresh tajarin pasta shaved with white Alba truffles, or roasted wild game such as venison or pheasant.
✨ Technical Specifications
Produttori del Barbaresco, founded in 1958 by the local priest Don Fiorino Marengo, is widely regarded as one of the greatest wine cooperatives in the world. While the winery is legendary for its nine single-vineyard Riservas representing the region's finest crus, any Riserva-level bottling from this historic estate showcases the pinnacle of traditional Nebbiolo winemaking. Crafted only in exceptional vintages, these wines are made from 100% Nebbiolo grapes harvested from the steep, clay-limestone hills of the Barbaresco DOCG. The vinification follows strict traditional methods, including extended maceration on the skins and aging for 36 months in large Slavonian oak casks (botte), followed by extensive bottle refinement. The resulting wine is a masterclass in complexity, offering a structured, age-worthy profile defined by notes of dried roses, tar, wild red berries, and earthy spice, supported by firm, noble tannins and vibrant acidity.
🍾 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