Riserva Speciale
⏳ Drinking Window
2015 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised beef or wild boar, rich egg-yolk pasta with shaved truffles, and aged cheeses like Castelmagno.
✨ Technical Specifications
The story of Produttori del Barbaresco is one of the greatest cooperative success stories in the wine world, founded in 1958 by the local parish priest, Don Fiorino Marengo, to protect small growers. The 'Riserva Speciale' designation represents a historic milestone from the late 1960s and 1970s, when the cooperative began bottling exceptional single-vineyard sites like Rabaja, Montestefano, and Ovello separately. Crafted from 100 percent Nebbiolo grown in the calcareous clay soils of Piedmont, these wines underwent traditional long macerations and extended aging in large Slavonian oak casks for at least four years. This historic style is celebrated for its ethereal aromas of dried roses, tar, leather, and sour cherries, backed by a formidable tannic structure that demands patience.
🍾 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