Giovanni Manzone – Barolo Gramolere – 2016

The wines of Giovanni Manzone winery encapsulate a centuries-old history, children of a tradition retraced from generations to the present day, where quality and continuity are the main points of the winery’s philosophy.
As early as the end of the 1800s, the Manzone family resided in the hamlet of Castelletto di Monforte and cultivated vineyards and wheat as well as taking care of livestock, but wine production was still a distant concept, as the grapes were sold to the local social cooperative. It was not until after the Great War, thanks to pioneer Giovanni Manzone, that more attention began to be paid to working the vineyards, for example, buying a Lamborghini tractor to work the steep hillside terrain and beginning to produce the first house wines. We are talking about the years of Piedmont’s Malora, a completely devastated territory, where most of the farmers were abandoning their lands to find working fortunes in the big cities. The Manzone family has always been faithful to the Langa expanses of land, and in 1960 they produced their first label of Barolo until they achieved international success in the 1980s thanks to their collaboration with American importer Marc de Grazia.
In all these years of history the approach in the vineyard and in the cellar has never changed, preferring long aging in large oak barrels and respect for the land trying to enhance the different microclimates derived from the soils.
Nowadays the winery cultivates 7 hectares of vineyards, producing extremely typical wines, from the native white Rossese, Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo and Barolo.
True Langa wines.
The Gramolere vineyard was purchased by the Manzone family in the early 1970s, known for soils rich in stone and red clay, due to the steep slope the roots must dig deep to survive and express wines with great structure suitable for aging. With the plants about 40 years old, the winery produces about 10000 bottles of Barolo . After spontaneous fermentation and a long 40-day maceration, the wine rests in large oak barrels for 3 years and a few months in concrete tanks beyond the bottle. The wine is released only when it is ready, normally after 5 years of aging.

• Producer: Giovanni Manzone
• Name:Barolo Gramolere
• Grape Variety: 100% nebbiolo
• Vintage: 2016
• Alcohol Content: 14,5%
• Bottle Size: 750ml

Productive Notes:Spontaneous fermentation in steel vats. Aging in oak barrels for 30 months.