Wine 1968

Chianti is that part of Tuscany that is bordered to the north by the suburbs of Florence, to the east by the Chianti Mountains, to the south by the city of Siena and to the west by the valleys of the Pesa and Elsa rivers. The first notarial document in which the name Chianti appeared in reference to the wine produced in the zone dates to 1398. With the 1968 Chianti Classico...

The wine house Lorenzo Bertolo e Figli has been for a long time a landmark for the production of refined Piedmont’s wines. Lorenzo Bertolo, founder and administrator has produced a company which started from the “Langhe” and from “Monferrato” and has selected the best plots of land of the typical areas of production, has taken care of the ageing in Slavonian oak barrels and...

The Monferrato zone lays claim to being Barbera's birthplace, and records of it growing there as far back as the 13th century. But the hills around Alba and Monforte d'Alba have proved they are capable of growing some particularly fine Barbera, as are parts of the Asti province. Century-old vines still exist in many regional vineyards and allow for the production of...

The story begins in 1807, in Paris, when the Marquis of Barolo Carlo Tancredi Falletti married Juliette Colbert de Maulévrier, a French noblewoman and the great granddaughter of the Minister of Finance Colbert by Luigi XIV . Juliette saw the great potential of the wine made in Barolo that, after a complete fermentation and a long aging in wood, would have been able to unveil...

Luigi Calissano used to be a well-known iron merchant in Alba. I n 1872 he began to work limited quantities of grapes and after a few years it became the most important wine factory in Alba. Luigi worked alongside his sons getting new marketing strategies and strengthening relations with the American markets and the exclusive contracts for the supplying of wines to several...

One of the oldest established Barolo houses and the most important landowner of Barolo’s greatest crus. Its viticultural beginnings date back to the 1700s, and Oddero’s first bottle was released in 1878. In 1951 the brothers Giacomo and Luigi Oddero began bottling their family's wines in Santa Maria, a frazione of La Morra, in the heart of the Barolo zone. With the 1968...

The story begins in 1807, in Paris, when the Marquis of Barolo Carlo Tancredi Falletti married Juliette Colbert de Maulévrier, a French noblewoman and the great granddaughter of the Minister of Finance Colbert by Luigi XIV . Juliette saw the great potential of the wine made in Barolo that, after a complete fermentation and a long aging in wood, would have been able to unveil...

One of the oldest established Barolo houses and the most important landowner of Barolo’s greatest crus. Its viticultural beginnings date back to the 1700s, and Oddero’s first bottle was released in 1878. In 1951 the brothers Giacomo and Luigi Oddero began bottling their family's wines in Santa Maria, a frazione of La Morra, in the heart of the Barolo zone. With the 1968...