Luciano Sandrone - Aleste

Barolo 2019 Perfect bottle 1x75cl The producer luciano sandrone is one of the few producers in the region who does not descend from generations of wine growers and winemakers, he just wanted to make wine. After graduating from agricultural college in the early 1970s and gaining work experience from various top estates in the region, he began acquiring vineyards in the mid 1970s and vinified his first grapes in 1978. In 1981, he brought the 1,500 bottles of his first barolo, from the 1978 vintage, to vinitaly, where an american broker bought all of them. Not encumbered by history, luciano mixes up modern and traditional approaches to winemaking, while also making both a blended barolo le vigne and a single vineyard bottling cannubi boschis of barolo. The wines are aged in 500 liter french tonneaux with only a small proportion of new wood included. Barolo le vigne’ is blended from vineyards across the region, whereas the flagship wine barolo aleste’ is made from fruit from the cannubi boschis single vineyard, but had its name changed in 2013 to aleste’, which is the combination of the names of luciano’s grandchildren alesia and stefano . Sadly, luciano passed away in january 2023 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 76 and a great loss. The wine first bottled in 1985, cannubi boschis is sandrone’s flagship wine and derives from the eponymous vineyard in the village of barolo. Fermentation and maceration take place in stainless steel tanks and is followed by ageing ... Brand: Perfect Bottle Type: Wine

Barolo 2019 Perfect bottle 1x75cl The producer luciano sandrone is one of the few producers in the region who does not descend from generations of