MICHELE CHIARLO'S CRONOLOGY
- 1956 First cellar in Monferrato, Piedmont, Itlay.
- 1958 First Barolo produced
- 1967 First foreign market: Germany
VINEYARDS
- 1988 Acquisto CEREQUIO,
La Morra (6ha)
- 1989 Acquisto CANNUBI,
Barolo (1,2ha)
- 1995 Acquisto Tenuta ALUFFI,
Podere La Court, Castelnuovo Calcea (22ha )
- 1997 Acquisto Podere MONTEMARETO,
Castelnuovo Calcea (9ha)
- 1999 Acquisto Podere COSTA DELLE MONACHE,
Agliano Terme (8ha)
- 2001 Acquisto Podere LA SERRA,
Montado Scarampi (10ha)
GREAT RATINGS DURING 20 YEARS
- 1992 first Tre Bicchieri (Barolo Cerequio 1988)
- 1993 Best Buy of the year Wine Spectator
(Barbera d’Asti 1990 – 91/100))
- 1994 Barolo e Barbera d’Asti nei TOP 100 di Wine Spectator
- 1997 Wine Spectator: 1 of the best 10 Italian Producers
- 2001 Wine Spectator Cover: la Barbera d’Asti
- 2004 Barolo in the TOP 100 Wine Spectator (Barolo Tortoniano 2000)
- 2009 Barbaresco in the TOP 100 Wine Enthusiast (Barbaresco Reyna 2006)
In the 1980s we realised that an extraordinary increase in quality could be achieved by ensuring a very low yield per rootstock for top wines and a particularly moderate one for classic wines, said limited yields being obtained by means of a rigorous thinning-out of the grape bunches; we were among the first producers in Piedmont to adopt and scrupulously follow said method. Lastly, carrying out the harvest on the basis of the phenolic ripeness of the grapes has enabled us to produce wines of greater intensity and with more harmonious flavours.
Our main sights have always been set on only having vineyards that are situated on prestigious hillsides and on focusing most of our efforts on meticulously cultivating them, trying to improve their management year by year.
The most favourable positions of our vineyards and their careful and zealous running are the real “secrets” behind the making of wines of highest quality.
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SEMIDIVITE 2010:
"MICHELE RACCONTA" |
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"I am convinced that it’s the duty of a wine company such as ours to recount
its origins and story as a testimony to the area in which it works. Not just expressing the land’s potential through its wines, but also describing landscape, history and tradition. It’s an important duty: it involves protecting memory and recording material culture.
We began in 1997 with “Beica! Un anno in vigna” (Beica! A year in the vineyard).
For a whole year a photographer observed work in the vineyard and
the cellar. The result was a season-by-season diary in pictures of natural cycles and human labour. Next came a competition organised in collaboration
with the Premio Grinzane Cavour award for the finest photographs of vineyards
and wine. Lastly, from 1998 to 2007, every year we invited a great
photographer to La Court for the wine harvest. Each recorded, from their
personal point of view and according to their own taste, the grand finale of a
year’s work on the land.
Now, following the opening of the Orme su La Court art park, our “semidivite”
library is the latest step in our effort to bring art to our hillsides, amid vine
rows and farms. This boo tells the story of our company through history,
places and people, and illustrates it with images of the vineyards where our wines are born and moments in the lives of our workers. It’s a way to leave a trace, but also to point the way ahead".
Michele Chiarlo |
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BY: MICHELE CHIARLO, PAOLA GHO E GIOVANNI RUFFA
FOTOGRAPH: GIOVANNI SUCCI
TRANSLATION: JOHN IRVING
ARTWORK: DANTE ALBIERI
PRINT: L’ARTISTICA SAVIGLIANO |
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