The Best Wineries in Barbaresco

Abrigo Orlando

Treiso, Italy

Abrigo Orlando fits the Treiso side of Barbaresco: small-scale, family-run, Nebbiolo-led and tied closely to hillside vineyards rather than cellar-door spectacle. The draw is terroir clarity, with Barbaresco DOCG, Langhe Nebbiolo, Barbera and Dolcetto framed by cellar and vineyard tastings in a quiet farmhouse setting.

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Agricola Ca’ du Rabajà

Barbaresco, Italy

Agricola Ca’ du Rabajà is a small agriturismo-winery in Barbaresco, built around estate wines, Piedmontese hospitality, and vineyard views rather than formal cellar-door theatre. Its strongest reason to go is the Rabajà connection: Nebbiolo from one of the commune’s serious crus, supported by a Falstaff 90-point rating for the 2007 Rabajà Barbaresco DOCG.

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Albino Rocca

Barbaresco, Italy

Albino Rocca is a family-run Barbaresco estate built around Nebbiolo, cru expression, and quiet cellar hospitality. The appeal is not spectacle but precision: vineyard-led wines from Ronchi, Cottà, Ovello/Loreto and Montersino, followed through cellar tours and terrace tastings in Barbaresco.

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Azienda Agricol Cascina Luisin

Barbaresco, Italy

Azienda Agricol Cascina Luisin is a small, family-run Barbaresco estate rooted in Nebbiolo, Rabajà and Asili. Its appeal sits in the old Piedmontese grammar: guided tastings by appointment, compact production, sustainable farming and cellar work that favors concrete, long maceration and large Slavonian botti over polish for its own sake.

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Azienda Agricola F.lli Cigliuti

Neive, Italy

A small family-run Barbaresco estate in Neive, Azienda Agricola F.lli Cigliuti belongs to the quieter side of Langhe wine travel: vineyard-led, reservation-based, and focused on Nebbiolo rather than hospitality theatre. Its Serraboella and Bricco di Neive holdings make the visit useful for drinkers who want to understand how Barbaresco’s hills, marl soils, and family farming translate into the glass.

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Azienda Agricola Grasso Fratelli

Treiso, Italy

A family-run Langhe winery in Treiso’s Valgrande cru, Azienda Agricola Grasso Fratelli is strongest when read through place: Nebbiolo, Barbaresco DOCG discipline, and the cooler Treiso register. The cellar leans traditional and countryside-casual, with estate-grown fruit, spontaneous fermentations, concrete tanks, and a portfolio that reaches from Barbaresco to Barbera, Dolcetto, Chardonnay, Moscato d’Asti, Nebbiolo d’Alba, and dry sparkling wine.

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Azienda Agricola Lano Gianluigi

Alba, Italy

Azienda Agricola Lano Gianluigi is a small family-run winery near Alba working within the Barbaresco DOCG orbit, with organic farming, estate fruit, and a red-wine portfolio built around Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto, and Freisa. Its appeal is not spectacle but scale: a quiet, low-intervention Piedmontese producer where terroir, direct sales, and traditional cellar choices carry the argument.

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Azienda Agricola Montaribaldi

Barbaresco, Italy

Azienda Agricola Montaribaldi is a family-run Barbaresco winery where the tasting experience is built around vineyard expression rather than cellar theatrics. Expect Nebbiolo, Barbera and Roero Arneis, a panoramic terrace over the Langhe hills and Alps, and guided visits that connect the estate’s 23.5 hectares to the wines in the glass.

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Azienda Agricola Prinsi

Neive, Italy

Azienda Agricola Prinsi is a small family-run estate in Neive, working within the Barbaresco DOCG tradition through Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto and Sauvignon Blanc. The draw is terroir rather than spectacle: 13 hectares of vines across a 25-hectare property, with San Cristoforo and Gallina among the key hillside sites shaping the estate’s Piedmontese register.

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Azienda Agricola Ressia

Neive, Italy

A small Barbaresco estate in Neive, Azienda Agricola Ressia is strongest when read through the Canova vineyard: steep south-facing slopes, calcareous marl and Nebbiolo handled with restraint. The appeal is not scale or spectacle, but an estate-grown view of Barbaresco DOCG shaped by Fabrizio Ressia’s 1997 shift toward focused winemaking and sustainable vineyard work.

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Azienda Vinicola Ugo Lequio

Neive, Italy

Azienda Vinicola Ugo Lequio belongs to Neive’s terroir-led Barbaresco conversation, with Gallina Hill giving the estate its spine. The focus is narrow and serious: Nebbiolo from historic vine plantings, large-cask ageing for Barbaresco Gallina DOCG, and a style that sits between contemporary precision and the older patience of Piedmontese cellar work.

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Azienda vitivinicola Domenico Filippino

Neive, Italy

Azienda vitivinicola Domenico Filippino is a small family estate in Neive, working about 10 hectares across the Serra Capelli and San Cristoforo slopes. The draw is traditional Piedmont rather than polished cellar-door theatre: Nebbiolo-led Barbaresco DOCG, Barolo, Barbera, Dolcetto, Moscato, Arneis and Cortese shaped by Langhe soils, long ageing and a quiet working-winery setting.

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Bruno Giacosa

Neive, Italy

Bruno Giacosa in Neive sits among the more closely watched addresses in Piedmont wine. For collectors tracing the arc of Barolo and Barbaresco, this is a foundational reference point.

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Bruno Rocca - Rabajà

Barbaresco, Italy

A small Barbaresco estate in the Rabajà cru, Bruno Rocca - Rabajà is strongest when read through soil and slope rather than cellar theatre. The draw is old-vine Nebbiolo from calcareous clay, sustainable farming, guided tastings, and a Rabajà bottling with serious critical backing, including 97 points from Wine Advocate for the 2021 vintage.

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Ca’ del Baio

Treiso, Italy

Ca’ del Baio is a fourth-generation Grasso family estate in Treiso, working within the Barbaresco DOCG with Nebbiolo at the centre and Barbera, Dolcetto, Chardonnay, Riesling and Moscato around it. The draw is the estate-grown lens: Asili, Pora and Vallegrande give the tasting a clear map of how Langhe soil, exposure and altitude change the shape of Barbaresco.

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Ca' Romè

Barbaresco, Italy

Ca' Romè is a small family-run winery in Barbaresco, founded in 1980 and focused on Nebbiolo from Barbaresco and Serralunga d'Alba. The draw is the terroir grammar of Piedmont: marl-heavy soils, older vines, indigenous yeasts, large Slavonian oak botti, and a tasting format suited to visitors who want a close reading of Barbaresco and Barolo rather than a high-volume cellar stop.

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Carlo Giacosa

Barbaresco, Italy

Carlo Giacosa is a small, family-run Barbaresco estate for travelers who care more about Nebbiolo, vineyard origin, and cellar discipline than polished tasting-room theatre. The draw is its work with Barbaresco DOCG sites including Ovello, Cole and Vicenziana, supported by long macerations, organic farming practice, and a modest production scale that keeps the experience close to the land.

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Cascina Bruciata

Barbaresco, Italy

Cascina Bruciata is a Barbaresco winery for drinkers who care about Nebbiolo through a specific site rather than a broad regional survey. Its focus is Rio Sordo, with estate-grown fruit, Barbaresco DOCG, Barbaresco Riserva and a quiet appointment-only format that suits serious tasting rather than high-volume cellar-door traffic.

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Cascina Carlòt

Coazzolo, Italy

Cascina Carlòt is a small family-run winery in Coazzolo, where Piedmont’s Langa and Asti hills shape a tasting built around Barbera, Nebbiolo, Moscato Bianco, Arneis, Dolcetto, Cortese, Grignolino, and Ruchè. The estate dates to 1920 and leans into organic, sustainability-minded viticulture, with terrace tastings, cellar tours, and a concise hospitality format that suits slower wine-country days.

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Cascina delle Rose

Barbaresco, Italy

Cascina delle Rose is a small family-run Barbaresco estate in Tre Stelle, shaped by Rio Sordo and Tre Stelle vineyards, organic farming, and a farmhouse hospitality style. The draw is not spectacle but close-range Langhe context: Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto and Arneis interpreted through old vines, calcareous marl, large cask ageing, and a quiet rural setting.

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Cascina Morassino

Barbaresco, Italy

Cascina Morassino is a small Barbaresco estate shaped by Ovello and Morassino, with Nebbiolo as the central language rather than a broad portfolio. The draw is traditional Piedmontese cellar work: estate fruit, indigenous yeasts, extended maceration and aging in large Slavonian oak, set against a quiet hillside cantina rather than a polished visitor complex.

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Castello di Neive

Neive, Italy

Castello di Neive gives the Barbaresco village a rare architectural lens: an 18th-century castle estate with historic cellars, courtyards and modern production spaces tied to Nebbiolo, Arneis and the Langhe’s mixed-variety tradition. The draw is terroir literacy rather than spectacle, with estate fruit, sustainable farming and a portfolio that reaches beyond red wine alone.

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Cerrino

Trezzo Tinella, Italy

Cerrino is a small family-run winery in Trezzo Tinella, set in the Langa hills with a focus on Nebbiolo, Barbera and Moscato. The draw is the land-first Piedmont format: Barbaresco DOCG, still reds and whites, private tastings by appointment, and an agriturismo-style mood rather than polished cellar-door theatre.

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Dante Rivetti

Neive, Italy

Dante Rivetti is a family-run Barbaresco estate in Neive, set around Bricco di Neive and a portfolio shaped by Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto, Moscato and Arneis. Its strongest argument is terroir: 55 hectares across Neive, Mango and Costigliole d’Asti, with single-vineyard Barbaresco bottlings that make the estate a useful stop for understanding how this corner of Piedmont speaks through wine.

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Fontanabianca

Neive, Italy

Fontanabianca is a family-run Barbaresco estate in Neive, tied closely to the Bordini cru and the clay-limestone slopes of the Langhe. Its appeal is terroir rather than spectacle: Nebbiolo-led wines, a cellar that mixes stainless steel, large oak, barrique and old cement, and a tasting-room setting surrounded by vines.

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Francone

Neive, Italy

Francone gives Neive’s Barbaresco culture a family-run, cellar-level reading rather than a polished tasting-room gloss. The draw is terroir made legible: Gallina vineyards, Nebbiolo-led wines, a 1964 cantina with museum-like viticulture material, and a guided format that connects Barbaresco, Arneis, Dolcetto, Moscato, Chardonnay, and traditional-method sparkling rosé to the Langhe’s UNESCO wine landscape.

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Gaja

Barbaresco, Italy

Gaja sits at Via Torino, 5 in the village of Barbaresco, Piedmont, and ranks among the more recognised Nebbiolo producers in Italy. Winemaker Angelo Gaja shaped the estate's modern identity through a combination of single-vineyard discipline and international ambition.

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Giuseppe Cortese

Barbaresco, Italy

Giuseppe Cortese is a Barbaresco winery defined by Rabajà, Nebbiolo and a family move toward estate-led production that began in 1971. The draw is not spectacle but a quiet, vineyard-centered reading of Barbaresco DOCG, with critic recognition for the 2021 Barbaresco and a cellar identity built around classic structure rather than tourism theater.

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Guido Rivella

Barbaresco, Italy

Guido Rivella belongs to the small-production side of Barbaresco, where vineyard work and cru identity carry more weight than visitor theatrics. The estate works about 3.5 hectares, draws heavily from Montestefano, and produces roughly 12,500 bottles a year, with Guido Rivella’s 47 years as winemaker for Angelo Gaja giving the wines serious technical authority.

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La Contea

Neive, Italy

La Contea is a traditional Piedmontese restaurant and locanda in Neive, shaped by courtyard dining, communal tables, and the wine culture of the Barbaresco area. Its appeal is not haute-cuisine theatre but the older rhythm of local hospitality: multi-course regional cooking, local bottles, and a setting that keeps the meal tied to the village rather than detached from it.

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La Spinona

Barbaresco, Italy

La Spinona is a small family-run Barbaresco estate where the point is Nebbiolo shaped by named sites, older vines, and organic farming rather than cellar spectacle. The Berutti family’s five-generation presence, 22 hectares across four vineyard sites, and strong critic recognition for Barbaresco Secondine place it firmly in Piedmont’s traditional, terroir-led lane.

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Lodali

Treiso, Italy

Lodali gives Treiso a compact, place-led winery experience: hillside Langhe setting, Barbaresco DOCG context, guided tasting, cellar visit, and a small-production frame rather than a spectacle-driven cellar door. The estate works with Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto, Arneis, Chardonnay, and Moscato, with sustainable practice noted and production around 85,000 bottles from roughly 16 hectares.

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Manera Fratelli

Alba, Italy

Manera Fratelli sits in the Barbaresco orbit of Alba, where Nebbiolo, Barbera, Arneis, Moscato and Dolcetto carry the local grammar of the Langhe. The family-run estate dates to 1950, works about 20 hectares, and keeps the visitor experience low-key: cellar tour, guided tasting, sommelier-led education, vineyard views and a production scale of roughly 30,000 bottles a year.

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Massimo Rattalino

Barbaresco, Italy

Massimo Rattalino is a small Barbaresco estate shaped around Nebbiolo, hillside viticulture, and a portfolio that moves from Langhe whites and Dolcetto into Barbaresco, Barolo, Riserva, and Chinato. Its strongest external signal is the 2015 Barbaresco Quarantadue42 DOCG, awarded 97 points and a Platinum medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards.

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Moccagatta

Barbaresco, Italy

Moccagatta is a family-run Barbaresco estate founded in 1952, working with Nebbiolo from hillside parcels across Barbaresco and Neive. The appeal here is terroir rather than spectacle: calcareous marl, sand, altitude, and patient oak aging shape wines with structure, perfume, and long cellar potential.

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Musso

Barbaresco, Italy

Musso is a small Barbaresco estate in Piedmont, rooted in the village’s Nebbiolo tradition and founded in 1929. Its appeal is not spectacle but scale: around 10 hectares, roughly 80,000 bottles a year, and a portfolio shaped by Barbaresco DOCG, Barbera, Dolcetto, Freisa and Chardonnay.

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Paitin

Neive, Italy

Paitin is a family-run Barbaresco estate in Neive, rooted in Serraboella and the Sorì Paitin parcel since 1796. The draw is terroir clarity rather than spectacle: organic farming, long macerations, large neutral botti and a small-scale cellar culture built around structured Nebbiolo from one of Barbaresco’s defining hills.

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Pasquale Pelissero

Neive, Italy

Pasquale Pelissero is a family-run Barbaresco estate in Neive, rooted in Cascina Crosa and a wine story that reaches back to 1921. The draw is not cellar theatre but a hilltop Langhe setting, eight hectares of vines, large-cask Nebbiolo, and a relaxed farmhouse style that places Barbaresco within its agricultural context.

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Pelissero

Treiso, Italy

Pelissero is a family-run Barbaresco DOCG estate in Treiso, founded in 1960 and shaped around estate-grown Langhe varieties. Its work sits squarely in the Treiso reading of Nebbiolo: hillside parcels, native grapes, cellar discipline, and a polished export reach without losing the agricultural frame of a family winery.

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Pertinace

Treiso, Italy

Pertinace is a Treiso cooperative rooted in Barbaresco DOCG, with a broad Langhe portfolio and a visitor format built around vineyard and cellar access rather than formality. Its strength is terroir education at cooperative scale: MGA Barbaresco, large-cask ageing, 90–110 hectares of member vineyards, and a relaxed countryside atmosphere shaped by the hills around Treiso.

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Piazzo Comm. Armando

Alba, Italy

Piazzo Comm. Armando fits the Langhe tradition in which Nebbiolo is not a garnish to the portfolio but the organizing principle. The family-run Alba winery works from a 70-hectare vineyard base, with 60% planted to Nebbiolo, and frames visits around guided tastings, maturation, and the long arc of Barolo and Barbaresco culture.

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Piero Busso

Neive, Italy

Piero Busso is a small family-run Barbaresco estate in Neive, rooted in organic vineyard work and cru-specific Nebbiolo from sites including Gallina, Mondino, Albesani and San Stunet. The appeal is not cellar-door theatre but precision: a quiet, vineyard-led reading of Barbaresco where soil, exposure and commune character matter more than spectacle.

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Poderi Elia

Neive, Italy

Poderi Elia is a small fourth-generation Barbaresco estate in Neive, rooted in family farming since 1890 and focused on Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto, Arneis and Moscato. Its strongest case is terroir: hand-tended vineyards, dry-farmed parcels, unfiltered wines and a cellar culture that favors structure over spectacle.

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Produttori del Barbaresco

Barbaresco, Italy

Produttori del Barbaresco is a cooperative winery in the village of Barbaresco, Piedmont. Built around the Nebbiolo grape and the distinctive soils of the Langhe hills, it occupies a specific position in the Italian fine wine canon where collective stewardship, not single-estate ambition, has defined output for generations. Its wines are a direct argument for what Barbaresco can achieve at the collective level.

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Rizzi

Treiso, Italy

Rizzi is a Barbaresco DOCG estate in Treiso, shaped by hillside Nebbiolo, old farmhouse architecture, cement tanks, large oak casks, and a panoramic tasting room over the Langhe. The draw is not showpiece hospitality but a classical cellar language: cru references, measured ageing, and a portfolio that keeps Piedmont’s local hierarchy in view.

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Roagna

Barbaresco, Italy

Roagna sits in the village of Barbaresco as one of the Langhe's most closely watched traditional producers. The estate occupies a position in Piedmont's upper tier of Nebbiolo specialists, working from parcels in the appellation's historic core. Visits here are rooted in the cellar and the glass, not in spectacle.

Rusèl

Barbaresco, Italy

Rusèl is a small-production winery in Barbaresco’s Tre Stelle area, built around guided tastings, local food pairings, and a practical, family-run style of hospitality. The draw is the comparative format: five wines, Langhe varieties, and a side-by-side Barolo and Barbaresco tasting that makes Piedmont’s terroir argument easier to grasp without turning the visit into a lecture.

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Socré

Barbaresco, Italy

Socré is a small Barbaresco estate shaped by Roncaglie, with a hillside vineyard setting and a portfolio rooted in Nebbiolo, Freisa, Barbera, Dolcetto, Croatina, and Chardonnay. Its identity is less about cellar-door spectacle than site expression: mature vines, compact production, and Piedmont varieties read through a quiet, traditional estate format.

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Sottimano

Neive, Italy

Sottimano is a small family-run Barbaresco estate in Neive, shaped around named crus rather than broad regional blending. The draw is the way Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto and dry Brachetto are separated by parcel, vine age and cellar treatment, giving serious drinkers a compact lesson in Piedmontese site expression.

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Taverna

Neive, Italy

Taverna is a small family estate in Neive, inside the Barbaresco DOCG area, where the interest lies in vineyard identity rather than polished luxury. Its modern bottling era began with Barbaresco in 2016, but the family history reaches back to the 1930s and includes early cru bottling linked to Cascina Slizza.

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Tenute Cisa Asinari dei Marchesi di Grésy

Barbaresco, Italy

A historic Barbaresco estate defined by the Martinenga vineyard, Tenute Cisa Asinari dei Marchesi di Grésy is for travelers who want Nebbiolo explained through site rather than spectacle. Its strongest draw is the way old vines, blue marl, limestone, and measured cellar work translate a named Barbaresco parcel into structured, age-minded wines.

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Torregiorgi

Neive, Italy

Torregiorgi is a Neive-linked Piedmont wine name best read through mature Nebbiolo rather than cellar-door spectacle. Its known identity centers on Barbaresco DOCG and Barolo Riserva bottlings from the 1970s, placing it in the patient, age-driven side of the Langhe conversation.

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Varaldo Rino

Barbaresco, Italy

Varaldo Rino is a small, family-run Barbaresco cellar with a focused Langhe portfolio built around Nebbiolo, Barbera, and Dolcetto. Its interest lies in the combination of third-generation stewardship, a compact 7-hectare vineyard footprint, and cellar work that uses short, intensive maceration before extended aging.

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