Historia
Ever since 1847, the Colla family has worked its vineyards in an excellent area, Piedmont’s Langhe zone. The vine dresser’s work was handed down from generation to generation until it reached Paolo Colla, the fourth generation of the family, who dedicated himself with intense energy to Barolo, “the king of wines”. He realized his dream of producing Barolo in the township of La Morra, and dedicated his life to this wine.
Already in the sixties the Barolos from Paolo Colla, full of great finesse and longevity, get major awards in major wine competitions of the time.
In 1973 his daughter, Marivanna, married Gianni Gagliardo, a young man from Monticello d’Alba in the Roero zone on the west bank of the Tanaro river. Gianni was a passionate young man with a notable entrepreneurial talent. The love of Gianni Gagliardo for the vineyards and the Barolo is immediate. Between the two men born a deep friendship and a fruitful collaboration which is the basis of the extraordinary success that the wines Gianni Gagliardo collect worldwide. It is Paul, with paternal affection, to transmit him all the secrets on vineyards and on winery that are used to create the undisputed king of the Langhe vineyards, the Barolo.From the second half of the eighties, Gianni Gagliardo took the reins of the winery that bears his name, inheriting the secular tradition of the Colla family. From that moment the evolution is unstoppable. It is in fact Gianni to bring all over the world the precious family labels.
Barolo is definitely the most prestigious Italian wine, standard-bearer of the high italian enological image and considered at the top of excellence.
Gianni Gagliardo Barolo is known all over the world and appreciated by the most authoritative experts in the elite world of wine.
In the early years of the new millennium, the sixth generation of the family gradually began to work for the house. Stefano, Alberto, and Paolo, the sons of Gianni Gagliardo, inherited both the passion for the vineyard and the ability in the world of business which have continued to write pages of success in the history of the family firm’s production of wine.
Stefano, the first-born, a careful oenologist with excellence as unique objective, has taken charge of the style of the wines, which are characterized by a tireless search for elegance, balance, and harmony.
At his side, his brother Alberto, who has taken on the responsibility for the vineyards, continues to seek optimal balance in the plants and a perfect ripening of the grapes.
Paolo, the youngest, after a doctoral thesis in Agricultural Sciences dedicated, as a matter of course, to the Nebbiolo grape, dedicates his energies to the commercial growth and development of the firm’s activites.