Borgogno, Langhe Freisa, Piedmont, Italy 2021

100% Freisa

Light cherry red color, a delicate aroma recalling raspberries and roses and dry flavor that becomes delicately soft after a short aging. Bitter tannins. Ideal to pair with main meat courses, or pasta with meat-based sauces.

Grapes are destemmed and crushed. This is followed by spontaneous fermentation in large concrete tanks for about 12 days. Then grapes are softly pressed. The wine ages for 10 months in large oak barrels, then 4 months in bottle.

Founded in 1761, Borgogno is the oldest continuously operating winery in Barolo. Cesare Borgogno expanded the winery’s production in the 1920s and commercial success followed. He also implemented an impressive “wine library” at the estate. To this day, half of the Barolo production is held back, only to be released 20 years later.

In the 1960s, Franco Boschis took over as manager until the Farinetti family bought the estate in 2008. Under Andrea Farinetti’s leadership, organic conversion was initiated and the winery began using only cement vats for fermentation, a return to the original winemaking style. All the wines are made at the estate’s winemaking facility in Barolo village in an underground network of historic fermentation and aging rooms.

Made with long maceration times and minimal intervention, the wines are renowned for their traditional style and long-term aging potential, a favorite of Italian wine professionals and collectors.