RATINGS

94 pts

WINE ENTHUSIAST
2021

92 pts

JAMES SUCKLING
2021

93 pts

JAMES SUCKLING
2020

WHO IS
BORGOGNO?

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 as he became one of the first winemakers from Piedmont to ship wines abroad.

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.

Today, the estate includes 39 hectares with 31 planted to vine. These include five hectares of Timorasso and rows in some of Barolo’s most storied vineyards including Liste, Cannubi, Cannubi San Lorenzo, Fossati, and San Pietro delle Viole.

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.

Grapes Variety

100% Timorasso

Tasting

It is intense and complex on the nose: in the early years there are fruity smells reminiscent of pear, peach and floral smells such as acacia flowers and hawthorn with well-defined spun sugar notes. The honey note is very typical of this wine.

PERFECT

PAIRINGS

This wine goes great with aged cheeses, blue cheeses, cured meats, mollusks, crustaceans, and fish

winery

Did You Know?

Back in the 1920s, Cesare Borgogno decidedly to do something entirely unheard of at the time in Barolo: He began cellaring half of the production from every vintage instead of selling it. Today, Borgogno has one of the deepest wine libraries in the world, with vintages stretching back decades.

Customers reviews

What people say?

I am not an expert on whites but this one is the bomb. Crazy nose, mineral, ash, flowers...in short, you name it because there is really everything in that nose. In the mouth it's very consistent and full-bodied, 14.5º alcohol, but it's so good that it drinks very well...I recommend it around 9/10 degrees centigrade, to better perceive smells and flavors.

Save Dave

Vivino

A white wine of excellent quality from the Tortonese hills in the Piedmont area. To the eye it is golden yellow in color with clear reflections. On the nose marked floral scents and white fruit. On the palate present apple, minerals, white peach and a slight balsamic note. Alcohol content 14% vol.

Giupoloy

Vivino