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95 pts Vinous Galloni
Drinking Window: 2024 - 2034
The 2019 Barbaresco Riserva Viti Vecchie Vallegrande is fabulous. A wine of sweeping grandeur and complexity, the Vallegrande is seriously beautiful. It shows all the deep spice and earthiness of Treiso in spades. Dark cherry, spice, leather, cedar and incense are some of the many notes that come alive in the glass. This is classic Treiso.
- By Antonio Galloni on September 2024
Ca' del Baio excels with forward, open-knit Barbarescos that offer notable charm. The Grasso family sources from top sites in Treiso and Barbaresco. The wines spend about a month on the skins. In recent years, the Grassos have begun to experiment with a small amount (10%) of stems in the vineyard designates. Time in barrel is 22-25 months (a bit less for the Autinbej), all in cask, except for the Pora and Riserva Viti Vecchie Vallegrande, which are aged in tonneaux because of the smaller volumes of those wines. The Grassos are one of the historic vigneron families in Piedmont. It’s great to see them doing so well with the refined wines they make today.

From the oldest vineyards surrounding the winery comes a Barbaresco with a dense tannic matrix, deep and rich. A patriotic wine that best expresses what the town of Treiso has to offer. Vallegrande Riserva Viti Vecchie is the ultimate synthesis of the Grasso family’s viti-vinicultural expressiveness.

Planting of vineyards: 1963
Type of soil: grey calcareous-sandy marl
Exposure: West
Harvest: towards the beginning of October
Winemaking: The crushing of the grapes, hand-picked and selected in a few micro-areas of CRU Vallegrande, produces the must that ferments, with temperature-controlled maceration, in wooden vats. In the lively phase of fermentation, two punching-downs per day allow for the proper extraction of colours and aromas from the skins. Then, the submerged cap maceration continues for a long time, for about 60 days. After racking, the wine matures for 30 months in big oak casks and, finally, it matures in the bottle for 12 months before release.