Cesare Bussolo
The wines are incredible. Whilst I love his 2014 Vigna Santa Lucia Barbera, it is the 2014 Fossati Barolo that steals the show with a wine that is highly perfumed and complex with layers and layers of beautiful fruits. It is an absolute knock out and one of the best young Barolo's I have drunk for a long time. It combines femininity on the nose with a palate that also shows these perfumed fruits, but with power and length that illustrates what a fantastic wine this is.
Cesare Bussolo was born and lived in the heart of La Morra, one of the villages of the Barolo appellation. His childhood was marked by the culture of wine and vine. Graduated in 1998 from the Alba Wine School, he started working in the large estate of Bovio in La Morra. Since 2007, he has worked at the Voerzio estate, has been involved in both vineyards and winemaking, and has become a faithful and indispensable collaborator of Roberto Voerzio. In 2009, faithful to his roots, he bought an old vineyard of about 90 years old, in an area called Santa Lucia, very well adapted to the Barbera vineyard culture in the city of La Morra, for him considered the best terroir in the world. In 2010, the vineyard was uprooted and replanted with a very high density of about 8000 plants per hectare. This has reduced the yield of grapes per plant to just over 1 kg. The vineyard is cultivated in organic agriculture, without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides to give the possibility to the soil to give their best. In the cellar, he works in a natural way. Harvested by hand at perfect maturity, super healthy, the grapes ferment for 15-30 days thanks to the only indigenous yeasts in stainless steel tanks. The wine then undergoes no alteration, also performs its malolactic fermentation in stainless steel tanks. It is then racked in oak barrels (20% maximum nine). After 12 months of aging, it is bottled at the end of August, without sticking or filtration. Enthusiastic, generous, Cesare is eager to offer (still in minute quantities ....) his first Barolo, from the vintage Fossati in the vintage 2014. This wine will be marketed in 2018. 2021 will see the arrival of his second. ANTHONY D'ANNA
Cesare Bussolo was born and lived in the heart of La Morra, one of the villages of the Barolo appellation. His childhood was marked by the culture of wine and vine. Graduated in 1998 from the Alba Wine School, he started working in the large estate of Bovio in La Morra. Since 2007, he has worked at the Voerzio estate, has been involved in both vineyards and winemaking, and has become a faithful and indispensable collaborator of Roberto Voerzio. In 2009, faithful to his roots, he bought an old vineyard of about 90 years old, in an area called Santa Lucia, very well adapted to the Barbera vineyard culture in the city of La Morra, for him considered the best terroir in the world. In 2010, the vineyard was uprooted and replanted with a very high density of about 8000 plants per hectare. This has reduced the yield of grapes per plant to just over 1 kg. The vineyard is cultivated in organic agriculture, without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides to give the possibility to the soil to give their best. In the cellar, he works in a natural way. Harvested by hand at perfect maturity, super healthy, the grapes ferment for 15-30 days thanks to the only indigenous yeasts in stainless steel tanks. The wine then undergoes no alteration, also performs its malolactic fermentation in stainless steel tanks. It is then racked in oak barrels (20% maximum nine). After 12 months of aging, it is bottled at the end of August, without sticking or filtration. Enthusiastic, generous, Cesare is eager to offer (still in minute quantities ....) his first Barolo, from the vintage Fossati in the vintage 2014. This wine will be marketed in 2018. 2021 will see the arrival of his second. ANTHONY D'ANNA