Vietti Barbera d'Asti La Crena 2022

About the Producer

Located in the heart of the Langhe hills, at the top of the village of Castiglione Falletto, the Vietti wine cellar was founded in the late 1800's by Carlo Vietti. The estate has gradually grown over time, and today the vineyard holdings include some of the most highly prized terroirs within the Barolo and Barbaresco winegrowing areas. Although they had been making wine for four generations, the turning point came at the end of the 1950's when Luciana Vietti married winemaker and art connoisseur Alfredo Currado, whose intuitions - from the production of one of the first Barolo crus (1961 - Rocche di Castiglione), through the single-varietal vinification of Arneis (1967) to the invention of Artist Labels (1974) - made him both symbol and architect of some of the most significant revolutions of the time. Alfredo's intellectual, professional, and prospective legacy was carried on, in the early 1990's, by his son Luca Currado Vietti and his wife Elena Penna, who contributed to the success of the Vietti brand - universally recognized today as being one of the very finest Italian wine labels. In 2016, the winery was acquired by the Krause family, enabling Vietti to add a number of prized Barolo and Barbaresco crus to the estate's holdings. Additional vineyards in the Colli Tortonesi area were purchased for the production of Timorasso, which started with the 2019 vintage. As in the past, Vietti continues to uphold the founding values Carlo Vietti established at the beginning: the pursuit of quality and considered experimentation. Vietti looks towards the future with even more promising and stimulating prospects. Each wine is the result of artisanal work in the vineyard and cellar, as well as the profound understanding and interpretation of each terroir. Vietti is a place where the intelligence of hands, applied in the vineyard and the cellar, meets a continued vision.