Cherry and eucalyptus flavors lend a tug between the fruit and savory elements in this fresh and complex red. Rose, tar, tobacco and leafy notes add interest as this turns dry on the finish. Best from 2027 through 2043.
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Located in the heart of the Langhe hills, at the top of the village of Castiglione Falletto, the Vietti wine cellar was founded in the late 1800's by Carlo Vietti. The estate has gradually grown over the course of time, and today the vineyard holdings include some of the most highly-prized terroirs within the Barolo and Barbaresco winegrowing areas.
Although they had been making wine for four generations, the turning point came at the end of the 1950's when Luciana Vietti married winemaker and art connoisseur Alfredo Currado, whose intuitions - from the production of one of the first Barolo crus (1961 - Rocche di Castiglione), through the single-varietal vinification of Arneis (1967) to the invention of Artist Labels (1974) - made him both symbol and architect of some of the most significant revolutions of the time.
Alfredo's intellectual, professional and prospective legacy was carried on by son-in-law Mario Cordero and later, in the early 1990’s, by his son Luca Currado Vietti and his wife Elena Penna, who contributed to the success of the Vietti brand - universally recognized today as being one of the very finest Italian wine labels - by continuing along the path of the pursuit of quality, considered experimentation and working for expansion and consolidation internationally.
In 2016 the winery was acquired by the Krause family, enabling Vietti to add a number of prized Barolo and Barbaresco crus to the estate’s holdings. Additional vineyards in the Colli Tortonesi area were purchased for the production of Timorasso, which started with the 2019 vintage.
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LOCATIONWINERY: Castiglione Falletto (Cuneo province), Piedmont VINEYARD: Barolo, Langhe and Roero, Piedmont VIEW IN GOOGLE MAPS REGION DETAILS |
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OCTOBER 2024
Vietti Barolo Ravera DOCG 2020
![]() Cherry and eucalyptus flavors lend a tug between the fruit and savory elements in this fresh and complex red. Rose, tar, tobacco and leafy notes add interest as this turns dry on the finish. Best from 2027 through 2043. 96
JANUARY 2025
Vietti Barolo Brunate DOCG 2021
![]() Complex aromas of cinnamon, spices, earth and strawberries with a leesy character. The attack is supple, with firm, ripe, velvety tannins. It’s slightly austere and dusty on the mid-palate. Full-bodied and powerful but refreshing, with a long, minty aftertaste. Best after two to three years. 94
JANUARY 2025
Vietti Barbera d’Asti La Crena DOCG 2022
![]() This vineyard site has grown from the six original hectares of vines to 10 hectares today thanks to the recent acquisition of a neighboring parcel. With full southern exposures, the vines were planted in three installments, with the oldest planted in 1932.” The Vietti 2022 Barbera d'Asti La Crena offers earthy notes, dark fruit, bitter chocolate and spicy notes that are typical of the Asti area. The Alba area tends to be produce more sweet fruit-driven wines, whereas this wine is savory and root-driven. The vines are planted in loose, sandy soils with little water retention. Because the plants suffer more, you get more structural heft and darkness as a result. It works for me. 94
JANUARY 2025
Vietti Barbera d’Alba Scarrone Vigna Vecchia DOC 2022
![]() Benefitting from southern vineyard exposures, the Vietti 2022 Barbera d'Alba Scarrone Vigna Vecchia is a wine of big intensity and richness. Indeed, that richness is the wine's pedigree. Fruit comes from very old vines planted back in 1918. This expression boasts balanced results without too much extraction or too much acidity, but you are definitely in for an opulent wine. 95
JANUARY 2025
Vietti Barbera d’Alba Scarrone Vigna Vecchia DOC 2022
![]() The 2022 Barbera d'Alba Scarrone Vigna Vecchia is a full-throttle Barbera. Old vines in this intensely warm, dry year yielded an intense, opulent wine. Ripeness is pushed to the limit—that much is clear. The Vigna Vecchia is unapologetically rich, but all the elements meld effortlessly. Creamy contours wrap it all together. 98
NOVEMBER 2024
Vietti Barolo Riserva Villero DOCG 2016
![]() Complex aromas and flavors of cherry, raspberry, rose, wild herbs, stony mineral and autumn woods are the hallmarks of this elegant red, which is beginning to reveal all of its facets yet is still structured. Leaves a chalky feel of refined tannins on the long finish. Best from 2026 through 2045. 98+
JANUARY 2025
Vietti Barolo Ravera DOCG 2021
![]() You could argue that this is the wine with the fasting growing quality trajectory because this vineyard site is one of those rare places in the appellation that appears to improve despite (or more likely because of) a changing climate. Ravera enjoys an open panorama (at 400 to 440 meters in elevation) that extends to the snow-capped Alps and benefits from cooler air currents, coupled with an amazing quality of light that you notice with the naked eye. The 2021 Barolo Ravera saw its fruit harvested later than the other wines, on October 11th, and continued with a classic Vietti-style fermentation with 20-plus days of skin contact. Simply put, what Ravera offers is complexity (and strength) with hints of bergamot, citrus, herbs, mineral and salt over a tightly concentrated mouthfeel. The quality of the tannins and the freshness of this 2021 are impressive, and that citrusy note continues with tangerine skin and kumquat. Production is 8,700 bottles. 97
JANUARY 2025
Vietti Barolo Cerequio DOCG 2021
![]() This has impressive aromas of blue fruit, earth, red plums and some dried herbs. Firm and chewy, with refined fruit, a precise, racy profile and a chewy finish. Well crafted and sophisticated, with an imposing structure that requires three to five years of cellaring. An outstanding wine. |