Rizzi

In the small hilltop village of Treiso, at the very heart of Barbaresco, the Rizzi farmhouse has watched over its vineyards since the eighteenth century. But it was Ernesto Dellapiana who, in 1974, turned that family land into a proper winery. Born in Alba in 1940 and raised on childhood summers at the Rizzi cascina, Ernesto left behind an established paper-making career in Turin to return to the hillsides his family had farmed for generations - a decision that, at the time, meant swapping paved roads and city comforts for a countryside still more accustomed to growing wheat than Nebbiolo.

What began with the Rizzi and Nervo crus grew steadily: the Boito farmhouse and its prized vineyard joined the estate in 1984, followed by the Manzola property in 1997. Today the winery farms roughly 44 hectares across six celebrated crus in the Barbaresco zone, with Ernesto's children, Jole and Enrico, now firmly at the helm. Enrico, an oenologist trained in Turin, oversees winemaking with a philosophy that prizes purity and elegance over heavy-handed style, while Jole manages the estate's commercial life and welcomes visitors to the family home.

The soils here are ancient seabed - ribbons of calcareous marl, clay and sand laid down millions of years ago - and they give Rizzi's wines their signature lift and precision. Through it all, the estate has stayed resolutely a family affair: unhurried, traditional, and deeply tied to its Treiso hillside.

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