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PIEDMONT

Piedmont is admired above all for its red wines, led by the regal Barolo and Barbaresco, yet a renaissance is underway that
includes historical and nearly extinct Piemontese grapes. An overwhelming majority of Piedmont’s wines derive from native
grapes like Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto and Cortese, and the region has 17 DOCG to talk about, making Piedmont the region with
the highest percentage of classified wines. The climate is rigid by Italian standards, with distinct changes of season, including
plenty of snow in the winter. Piedmont stands at a crossroads, and while the ‘new school’ has settled back into being more ‘old
school,’ Nebbiolo is still a relative value amongst the world’s most collected wines. Our Piemonte portfolio has a wine for
everybody, featuring a bevy of styles, regions and philosophies from some of the greatest wine producers in the world.

Piemonte
Attimo
Aldo Conterno
Diego Conterno
Curto
Elvio Cogno
Bruna Grimaldi
Bartolo Mascarello
Giuseppe Mascarello
Massolino
Armando Parusso
Elio Perrone
La Morra Podere Elia
Curto Luciano Sandrone
Simone Scaletta

Roddi
Barolo Bruna Grimaldi
Luciano Sandrone

Barolo
Communes

Castiglione Falletto
Bartolo Mascarello
Giuseppe Mascarello Serralunga d’Alba
Massolino
Montforte d’Alba
Attimo
Aldo Conterno
Diego Conterno
Massolino
Armando Parusso
Novello Simone Scaletta
Elvio Cogno

The two best and most notable wines of Piedmont, Barolo (with its notable communes of La Morra, Barolo, Serralunga d’Alba,
Montforte d’Alba, Castiglione Falleto, and Novello), and Barbaresco (with its communes of Nievve, Treiso, San Rocco
Senodelvio, and Barbaresco), take their names from the respective villages. These regions are distinguished by hillside vineyards
(often noted as Sorì, upper hillside vineyard with Southern exposure, or Bricco, the highest point of the hill or a vineyard with a
particularly steep aspect), as well as very specific soils. Nebbiolo finds its best home on Helvetian soil (eastern Barolo) with more
iron and sandstone, or Tortonian (Barbaresco and western Barolo), a blueish-white colored calcareous marl.
Most the rest of Piedmont’s most famous wines are named after the grapes from which they are made—Barbera, Brachetto,
Dolcetto, Gringnolino, Freisa, Moscato, Nascetta, Nebbiolo. Most also will add a district name, indicating they come from a
limited and theoretically superior area. Notable exceptions of this are Langhe, Roero, Monferrato, and Gavi.

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