Resolutely traditional Barolo from one of the hottest producers in the region
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2019 Giacomo Fenocchio Barolo Villero 750 ml
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The Hottest Producer in Piedmont?
Giacomo Fenocchio is on a rocket-ship trajectory in Barolo. Over the course of a decade, they’ve gone from an insider-favorite estate to a white-hot superstar—and their 2019 Villero cements their status as perhaps the collectible estate on the rise.
With 98 points, it tied for Wine Enthusiast’s top-scoring Barolo of the vintage with just two other wines, both priced north of $150—and the magazine’s praise was glowing: “The precision and beauty that Claudio Fenocchio is able to coax out of his wines is astonishing and this 2019 Villero is an opus.”
Just as the Barolo of Giovanni Cannonica or Burlotto, the Fenocchio wines have been made the same way for ages. Then, one day, the wine world woke up to the quality coming out of their cellar door.
Giacomo Fenocchio started his eponymous domaine in 1964, from family holdings. The modern renaissance began when young Claudio took over the estate, after his father’s untimely death in 1989. Modernist Barolo was all the rage at the time, and names like Altare and Voerzio were attracting record prices for their barrique-aged bottlings.
But Claudio’s focus never wavered. He made resolutely old-school bottlings throughout the 90s, focusing on organic farming, long macerations, and aging in the traditional giant casks known as botti.
By the early 2000s, he started to gain a few influential fans. Italian-wine expert Kerin O’Keefe was an early champion: She named him one of her favorites, alongside icons Giacomo Conterno and Bartolo Mascarello in her seminal book Barolo and Barbaresco. She declared that Fenocchio is “a master at crafting classic Barolos that beautifully express their pedigree…his noninterventionalist approach in the cellars ensures that their individual terroirs shine through.”