Giacomo Conterno Cerretta Barolo 2016 Size:Regular Crop uses only USDA certified

Crop uses only USDA certified organic grain

Ultra-traditionalists in the cellar—they swear by large casks—they are blessed with top-class vineyards in Bussia

Light fining and filtering

He produces exciting wines of great purity and expression due to the soil from which they come

A small proportion (5%) of the blend spends three to four months in new oak barrels

Giacomo Conterno Cerretta Barolo 2016 Size:Regular Crop uses only USDA certifiedFew estates in Italy are so closely identified with one piece of land as Giacomo Conterno. When Conterno purchased the monopole Cascina Francia in 1974 it was a wheat field, although vines had been planted there in the past. Given all of the change in Piedmont over the last thirty plus years, it is hard to a believe that Conterno didn't acquire another parcel after that until Cerretta in 2008. From Cerretta, Roberto Conterno produces both a Barbera