History
The Sarotto family settled in Neviglie with the arrival of Giuseppe, who was born in the nearby village of Barbaresco at the end of 1700's. Giuseppe was a farmer, and when he died, he left his vineyards to his three sons:
Giulio, Giovanni and Giacomo, and the property was divided into three.Our father, Giacomo Sarotto, began making his own wine and, with the help of his son Giovanni and later his grandson Luigi Giovanni, the business underwent expansion from 1870 to 1930-40.During these years, the family specialised in the production of Dolcetto, exporting it in bulk in wooden barrels as far away as England in the early 1900's.
The export market was lost with the war, and the vineyards were later decimated by the phylloxera pest. From 1950 Luigi Giovanni's son, Angelo, continued working the vineyards, and new varieties, including Moscato, Freisa and Barbera, were planted, but the grapes were sold to dealers until the early 1980's, when Angelo's son, Roberto, graduated from the local wine-making school.Since 1991 all the grapes grown on the estates have been vinified in the winery, and the range of wines produced was extended in the same year with the purchasing of a 20 hectare farm in Barolo wine-growing area.
Further varieties were introduced, including Arneis, Chardonnay, Bracchetto, Nebbiolo (for the production of Barbaresco as well as Barolo), and also Cabernet Sauvignon, which is used to produce the company's most prestigious wine, "Enrico I°", dedicated to Roberto's son, Enrico, who was born in 1993. From the oldest wineyards of our estate we obtain the "Elena" Barbera d'Alba doc, this time dedicated to Roberto Sarotto's second child born in 1998.