Josetta Saffirio Barolo

Varietal | Nebbiolo

Region | Piedmont, Italy

Vintage | 2017

Tasting Notes

“The gnomes represent the conscience of good men”

Despite his hard life, Ernesto Saffirio maintained a childlike soul, every night he recounted to little Josetta that when he was small he saw a gnome enter the courtyard of the house in a cart drawn by mice.

Barolo is known as The King of Wines and The Wine of Kings. Barolo still stands as one of the greatest Italian red wines to ever be produced. But perhaps the most impressive distinction that Barolo holds over most other Italian red wines is how it has impressed royalty over the years. Barolo was an enormous favourite of King Albert of Savoy, who is reputed to have purchased the Verduno Castle solely because it housed General Staglieno, who had a reputation for creating some of the best Barolos of the era.

It takes a special kind of wine to be so good that it influences the decisions of royalty, and this interest in Barolo as the wine of kings extended into the 1800s when King Vittorio Emanuele II also took interest in the wine through the purchase of the legendary Fontanafredda estate. Befittingly Barolo has practically carried a royal seal of approval over many centuries.

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