Stefano Porro Langhe Nebbiolo 2023

Stefano Porro Langhe Nebbiolo is a red wine made by Stefano Porro in Piedmont, Italy. It is pressed and destemmed, and 50% is left with the whole vine. Be careful, with the whole vine, not the bunch, because the bunch would give too many tannins, since the Nebbiolo from Serralunga d'Alba is characterized by the bravery of its tannins. It is always vinified in cement vats and then left to mature for 7 months in Slavonian oak barrels.With the 2019 vintage, Stefano Porro begins the project that bears his name from the hectare of vineyard that surrounds the family home in Serralunga. Nephew of Guido Porro, his father had cultivated the vineyard until the eighties of the last century, when a legislative change in Italy made small farms like his father's unviable. For almost four decades, the grapes were sold to cooperatives and the family He was focused on farming on the other estates in his estate.In 2019, an American offered the family the purchase of that hectare and that is when Stefano declined the offer and became convinced that he should cultivate it. Barely 300 bottles of Barolo from that 2019 vintage, which were then 500 in the 2020 harvest and then 700 in the 2021 harvest. The winery today produces a total of about 5,500 bottles a year, of which 2,500 are Langhe Nebbiolo, 1,000 Dolcetto and another 1,000 Barbera from grapes bought from an uncle who owns an estate in Monforte, which Stefano himself is considering working completely to be able to increase production to a theoretical maximum of 10,000 bottles.We are therefore faced with an almost confidential project, which focuses more on quality than quantity, and whose philosophy is fundamentally to produce wine of great elegance, with the flavor expected from the calcareous soils from which the wines come.