Cavalieri Tartufo
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh egg pasta (tajarin) topped with shaved white truffles, slow-braised beef or wild game, and mature, rich cheeses like Castelmagno.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted as an exclusive selection for the prestigious Ordine dei Cavalieri del Tartufo e dei Vini di Alba (Order of the Knights of the Truffle and Wines of Alba), this rare bottling represents a pinnacle of traditional winemaking by the legendary Produttori del Barbaresco cooperative. Made from 100% Nebbiolo grapes harvested from the region's finest calcareous clay soils, this wine undergoes classic long maceration and extensive aging in large Slavonian oak casks. The historic Order, founded in 1967 at the Castle of Grinzane Cavour, selects only exceptional lots through rigorous blind tastings to bear their historic label. The resulting wine is a masterclass in classic Barbaresco, boasting ethereal aromas of dried roses, tar, leather, and bright red cherries, backed by robust tannins and a vibrant acidity that reflects the unique microclimate of the Langhe hills.
🍾 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