Vigna Rionda is “the most perfumed, sensual and mystical of all Barolos”
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2012 Figli Luigi Oddero Vignarionda Barolo 750 ml
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From a Single Hectare of Vines
Ask Barolo winemakers to list their Top Five vineyards. We’d bet a bottle of Monfortino that Vigna Rionda would be on every list.
The site is the Barolo equivalent of Le Musigny or Chambertin—the very best of the best of the area’s Grand Crus. It’s one of just ten sites that Vinous rates as Exceptional in their map of the area’s vineyards—ahead of other famous names like Cannubi, Bussia, or Villero—declaring that “Vigna Rionda yields the most perfumed, sensual and mystical of all Barolos.” Luigi Oddero owns but a single hectare in the cru.
The story of Figli Luigi Oddero is both deeply rooted in this history and relatively new. The Oddero family is legendary in the region, and in 2006, Luigi Oddero amicably split from his brother Giacomo, retaining 32 hectares of some of the family's finest vineyards. Luigi, known as a quintessential country gentleman, passed away in 2009. Today, the winery is run by his widow Lena and their children, Maria and Giovanni.
Their efforts have garnered acclaim and caught the attention of legendary importer Neal Rosenthal, who now brings their wines to a wider audience. Rosenthal loves nothing more than to import and sell wines with some bottle age, and the 2012 Vignarionda is finally emerging from its fiercely tannic younger persona—though it still has plenty of time left to hit apogee.
Hailed as “a rockstar vintage” by James Suckling, 2012 was warm, and it produced more richness and texture than was often the case in the early ‘10s. Antonio Galloni wrote in his 2012 vintage report, “Go deep on favorite producers and wines. Those bottles will give pleasure for many years and decades to come.”