If you turn off into the country road that leads up to the town of Annunziata in La Morra and drives down the long gravel road, you end up at two wineries. One owns the Veglio family, the other the Altare family. Part of Mauro Veglio’s success must also be found in the friendship with neighbor Elio Altare. Since Mauro took over the family farm in 1992, he has been both an inspiration and help in making his own wine.
The property consists of approx. 11 hectares distributed on four different cru’s, and the total production is approx. 60,000 bottles. Veglio owns some interesting fields, which go on to be some of the finest. Arborina gives structure and at the same time the typical La Morra elegance. Rocche is from the field which is also called by its full name Rocche dell’Annunziata. If you can talk about Grand Cru, then Rocche must be one of them. Winemaker and historian Renato Ratti made a map of Barolo, categorizing the fields, and he considered Rocche to be among the top category. Rocche also costs the producers who own part of it a little more than the other fields do. Castelletto is a zone in Monforte d’Alba, from which Mauro Veglio also produces wine. The field is from his wife Daniela’s family. The Cascina Nuova field is just outside Veglio and Altares’ common driveway. On the ground, Veglio has 50-year-old Barbera vines. You can see the low harvest yield (approx. 28 hl./ha.) On both the color and the alcohol. However, Veglios Barbera is usually quite elegant.
Although new barriques are also used to store both the Nebbiolo-based and Barbera-based wines, one can still always find both grape character and terroir in Veglio’s often very elegant wines. If you want to categorize Veglio’s wines, they are probably among the most Burgundian you can find in Piedmont. None of Veglio’s wines are filtered or clarified. Culture yeast is not used either. Horse manure is used instead of synthetic products in the field, just as herbicides and products against mold are banned. Veglio only sulfur quite a bit. Thus, the free sulfur is approx. 25-30 mg. pr. liters and the total sulfur of approx. 40-60 mg.pr. liters. This is about half of what is officially allowed.
In 2017, Mauro merged with nephew Alessandro Veglio, who owns 0.65 ha of Nebbiolo on the MGA field Paiagallo. Barolo Paiagallo is only aged in large casks, and therefore also differs in terms of production from Mauro Veglio’s other wines. With this construction, you got both new opportunities and fresh inspiration in the company. At the same time, the property remains in the family’s hands.