Don Fiorino Riserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised beef or wild game, rich egg-based pasta dishes with fresh truffles, and mature, savory cheeses such as Castelmagno.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Don Fiorino Riserva is a profound tribute to Don Fiorino Marengo, the visionary parish priest of Barbaresco who in 1958 gathered nineteen local growers to found the modern Produttori del Barbaresco cooperative, saving the region's viticulture from post-war economic ruin. Unlike the cooperative's famous single-vineyard Riservas, this special bottling represents a return to the historic tradition of blending Nebbiolo grapes from several of the region's premier crus, including legendary sites like Asili, Rabaja, and Montestefano. Crafted only in exceptional vintages, the wine is made from 100% Nebbiolo, undergoing traditional long maceration before aging for thirty months in large Slavonian oak casks (botti) and outstanding refinement in the bottle. The result is an incredibly complex, structured, and soulful expression of Barbaresco, balancing intense floral aromas, dark cherry fruit, earthy leather, and refined, age-worthy tannins.
🍾 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