Rivetto

Rivetto's wines have gained considerable international admiration over the last ten years, taking off in 2011 when his 2006 Barolo was ranked #16 on the Wine Spectator Top 100 list. These are truly unicorn wines of the Piemonte.

Enrico Rivetto is considered by his neighbours to be ... eccentric. It is not simply that he sought to become the first Demeter certified grower in Barolo. The passion and conviction goes much further: Enrico believes strongly in natural holistic poly-farming.

And he puts his money where his mouth is: In a time when vines in Barolo are selling for an average of €1.2m per hectare, he's actively tearing up several hectares of his inheritance by the roots just to plant nut trees, orchards, herbs, and wild flowers, tearing up more to create pasture for grazing animals, and tearing up more to let a portion of the land return to wilds.

From this harmony of interacting plant life, Enrico is out to prove that Barolo's proudest expression will emerge in its ultimate complexity.

His viticultural interpretation of Masanobu Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution and Rudolf Steiner's Biodynamics have shown with each year an increasing beauty and singularity in the final product.

Rivetto's wines are nothing short of insights, truly floor to ceiling windows into the Piemonte that's so bewitched Italian wine lovers everywhere. It is our privilege to represent these artful wines in Western Canada.

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