Producer
Alfredo Prunotto founded his business in 1922, and was one of Piemonte’s most dynamic exporters until his retirement in 1956. The company passed then to Prunotto’s friend Beppe Colla, now a revered winemaker and one of the founding fathers of modern Piemonte. The quality of the top wines goes without saying, but the rest of the range is made with equal aplomb. The style is modern without being exaggerated: freshness of aroma and approachability of structure are viewed as positives, but copious new oak is not. Indeed, the only wines that see the inside of a brand new barrique are the outstanding single vineyard Barberas.
Vineyard
Grapes are sourced from vineyards in the communes of Barbaresco and Treiso, where the soil is rich in calcareous marl as well as manganese, boron and zinc.
Winery
The selected grapes were destemmed and crushed, then fermented at 30ºC with ten days’ maceration. Following malolactic fermentation, the wine was aged for twelve months in a mixture of 50hl and 75hl French oak barrels.
