Nebbiolo
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic Piedmontese tajarin pasta with meat ragù, roasted veal or pork loin, and medium-aged cheeses such as Toma Piemontese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary cooperative Produttori del Barbaresco, founded in 1958 by the local priest Don Fiorino Marengo to protect small growers, this Langhe Nebbiolo is a masterclass in regional heritage. While many Langhe Nebbiolos source grapes from the wider region, this bottling is unique: it is composed of 100% Nebbiolo grown entirely within the prestigious Barbaresco DOCG boundary, primarily from younger vines. Fermented in stainless steel and aged briefly in large Slavonian oak casks, it offers a vibrant, pure expression of the Nebbiolo grape, capturing the essence of the Langhe's clay-limestone soils without the heavy oak influence. It pays homage to Domizio Cavazza, the founding father of Barbaresco, who first recognized the cooperative potential of these 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.