Description

Michele Reverdito started producing his own wines in 2000, his father having previously sold his harvests to neighbouring estates, and they get better every year as more vineyards are added (currently 20 hectares in total) including vines up to 30 years old. The Castagni is surprisingly accessible, being delicious when young although it will also develop well in bottle over 5-10 years.

Michele Reverdito’s vines are on the road that connects La Morra with Verduno in Northern Itlay. That, admittedly, is a less famous part of town than the part along the road to Barolo, but Signor Reverdito makes up for the lesser notoriety of his vineyards with a meticulous viticulture, a very late harvest, and a purity of traditional cellar technique that results in spectacularly fragrant, dark, deep Barolos. Hand-harvested, his fruit is fermented in temperature controlled stainless without the addition of yeasts or enzymes. It is then aged in traditional 1,000 litre barrels, none of them new.

The vineyard lies at an altitude of 370 to 450 metres above sea level.