Stefano Porro Barolo Serralunga 2022

Stefano Porro Barolo dei commune di Serralunga is a red wine produced by Stefano Porro in Piedmont, Italy. It is vinified in a standard way in cement vats, pressed and destemmed normally, then left in Slavonian oak barrels for 2 years and the rest is refined in cement for 2 more years.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 estates in their estate.In 2019, an American offered the family the opportunity to buy that hectare, and that is when Stefano declined the offer and became convinced that he had to cultivate it. Just 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 now 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 produce wine of great elegance, with the flavor expected from the calcareous soils from which the wines come.