Elio Grasso

“We love to be recognized first as peasants and then as producers: it is our way of honoring and continuing the work of those who have faced the typical difficulties of those who work with nature and wine before us. For this reason our family wants to highlight, without presumption, those convictions and ways of being of all the peasant families of Langa, those characteristic features that we believe will make the difference ": nothing better than these words can summarize the philosophy on which the Family management of Elio Grasso family management.
We are in Piedmont, in Monforte d'Alba, and it is here that the 18 hectares of corporate ownership are conducted by raising Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto and Chardonnay grapes, from which wines are obtained which can be defined as a concentrate of culture, territory and traditions.
We are in an area that has always been considered high vocation, as evidenced by the map of the best vineyards built, at the beginning of the last century, by the great historian Lorenzo Fantini.
The choice was to vinify and bottle separately, starting from 1978, the owned grapes, so that the farm could find a space in a market where good winemakers already operated. In the cellar, the technological instruments are of the most modern, even if the management remains purely artisanal.
Also in the vineyard, the policy of small steps began with progressive re -implants of Nebbiolo, Barbera and Dolcetto and, since 1986, also of a small plot of non -native grapes, the Chardonnay, "educating it" to be an expression of the terroir in which it was introduced.
With an annual average of about 90 thousand bottles, each production process is meticulously controlled, starting from the supervision of the work between the rows up to the final bottling. Wine are born in this way capable of combining character and balance, solidity and territorial adherence: labels that have made the cellar of Elio Grasso for years, one of the most authoritative and prestigious realities of the land of Langa.