Riserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised beef or venison, rich pasta dishes with wild mushrooms or truffles, and aged cheeses like Castelmagno or Pecorino.
✨ Technical Specifications
Born from one of the wine world's most revered cooperatives, the Produttori del Barbaresco Riservas represent the pinnacle of Nebbiolo from the Langhe hills of Piedmont. The cooperative's roots trace back to 1894 when Domizio Cavazza first united local growers, a legacy revived in 1958 by the village priest, Don Fiorino Marengo, to protect small family farms. In exceptional vintages, the cooperative crafts nine distinct single-vineyard Riservas from legendary crus like Asili, Rabaja, and Montestefano. Vinified with strict adherence to tradition, these 100% Nebbiolo wines undergo long macerations and spend 36 months aging in large, neutral Slavonian oak botti. This patient process preserves the pristine expression of terroir, yielding wines celebrated for their haunting aromatics of dried roses, tar, red cherries, and white pepper, underpinned by a firm, noble tannic structure and vibrant acidity.
🍾 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