The
history of Vietti wines goes back four generations. Wine has been
vinified here since the 19th century but it took until the beginning
of the 20th Century for Mario Vietti to bottle under his own label.
Mario Vietti’s daughter Luciana married Alfredo Currado. In 1990 their
son Luca Currado joined his borther-in-law Mario Cordero to lead the
winery. Vietti now owns 31 hectares of vineyards in the provinces
of Cuneo and Asti.
Alfredo Currado proved to be a trend setter. In 1952 he was one of
the first to bottle single vineyard Barolo with his Brunate, Rocche
and Villero. In 1967 he turned his focus to rediscover and understand
the Arneis, an under-appreciated variety at the time, but one which
is now the most famous white wine in the Roero area.
In 1970 Alfredo and Luciana were inspired by a local artist to break
with the status quo of the region once again. To give freshness and
modernity to the labels they began featuring artwork by Gianni Gallo,
Eso Peluzzi, Pietro Cascella, Mino Maccari and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
In 1996, for the official presentation of the Janet Fish 1990 Villero
label, the entire collection was shown at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York.
Antonio Galloni, writing in The Wine Advocate, December 2007, awarded
2005 Perbacco 90 points:
“In recent years Currado has stepped up his commitment to the entry-level
Barolo Castiglione by using a more stringent selection for that wine,
which he views as a “multi grand-cru.” Currado doesn’t like the idea
of a Barolo normale because he thinks it debases the wine, so he came
up with Perbacco, which is made from the estate’s second selection
of fruit from its multiple holdings across the region. It is given
23 months of oak aging prior to being bottled and released with just
a few months of bottle age. It has all the hallmarks of a Barolo,
but in miniature. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2012.”
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