Riserva Don Fiorino
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-cooked beef braised in red wine, fresh egg pasta tossed with butter and shaved white truffles, or mature, savory cheeses such as Castelmagno.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Riserva Don Fiorino is a monumental tribute to Don Fiorino Marengo, the visionary parish priest of Barbaresco who, in 1958, gathered nineteen local growers to establish the Produttori del Barbaresco cooperative, saving the region's viticulture from post-war economic ruin. Crafted only in exceptional vintages, this rare Riserva departs from the cooperative's traditional single-vineyard bottlings. Instead, it is a masterfully curated blend of 100% Nebbiolo sourced from the cooperative's nine legendary crus, including Rabajà, Asili, and Montestefano. Fermented in traditional concrete vats and aged for 36 months in large Slavonian oak casks, this wine represents the ultimate synthesis of Barbaresco's diverse clay and limestone terroirs, marrying the structural power of the northern vineyards with the ethereal elegance of the southern slopes.
🍾 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