Stefano Porro Barbera D'Alba Superiore 2024

Stefano Porro Barbera d'Alba Superiore is a red wine made by Stefano Porro in Piedmont, Italy. It is vinified in a cement vat, with 30% of the grapes whole and the rest crushed and destemmed, after which it is left to mature for 6 to 8 months in French 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 1980s, 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 focused on the agricultural work of the other farms in their estate.In 2019, an American offered the family the purchase of that hectare and that is the moment Stefano declines the offer and convinces himself that he must grow it. Barely 300 bottles of Barolo from that 2019 vintage, which were then 500 in the 2020 harvest and then rise to 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 a farm 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 make wine of great elegance, with the flavor expected from the calcareous soils from which the wines come.