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Oddero – Convento Barolo

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Italy
Piedmont
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Red

The Facts

UPCs 2017 (750ml) - 8 11644 01354 3
Origins Italy > Piedmont > Langhe
Appellation Barolo
Varietal Nebbiolo
Cepage 100% Nebbiolo
Markets Texas

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The Character

Overall Ethereal and savory
Sustainability Natural Fermentation

The Story

Given Oddero's staggering 35 hectares worth of Nebbiolo di Barolo, the estate has historically sold off a portion of its production in bulk, reserving the best-exposed sites in the best spots for its Barolo “Tradizionale”. In exceptional vintages, however, they now bottle a second Barolo, mainly from parcels in La Morra. They named it “Convento”—a nod to the fact that their estate was a convent in the early 17th c. It is vinified and aged just like their Barolo “Tradizionale”: natural fermentation in stainless steel with a 25-day maceration, followed by two years in large Slavonian-oak casks. Convento emphasizes purity of fruit over structure, with a lifted mineral streak of lovely clarity. That said, it is still very much a traditional Barolo in the style of Oddero, bearing no trace of oak aromatics or wood tannins, and with a perfume simultaneously ethereal and savory.

About Oddero

Brand Story

Our company was born thanks to Luigi Oddero, an oenologist and man of great curiosity and culture, deeply and viscerally in love with his land, the Langa. A country gentleman, as Mario Soldati defined him in his 1975 interview reported in the book Vino al Vino, who contained within himself the peasant spirit and the long-term vision, representing the fusion between the energies of the past and the desire to look to the future.
Today, after Luigi's passing, the company is managed by his wife Lena and his children, Maria and Giovanni, whose names are in honor of their grandparents, those who began the centuries-old history of the company. Here too, tradition becomes continuity, with a thread that links the beginning of the 19th century, the present and the future.

Brand Story

Our company was born thanks to Luigi Oddero, an oenologist and man of great curiosity and culture, deeply and viscerally in love with his land, the Langa. A country gentleman, as Mario Soldati defined him in his 1975 interview reported in the book Vino al Vino, who contained within himself the peasant spirit and the long-term vision, representing the fusion between the energies of the past and the desire to look to the future.
Today, after Luigi's passing, the company is managed by his wife Lena and his children, Maria and Giovanni, whose names are in honor of their grandparents, those who began the centuries-old history of the company. Here too, tradition becomes continuity, with a thread that links the beginning of the 19th century, the present and the future.

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