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About Cavallotto Wines
The history of this hill begins with another name, that of Monte della Guardia. It was owned by Juliette Colbert, the last Marquise of Barolo , who hosted Silvio Pellico released from Austrian prisons, who created charitable institutions throughout Piedmont, who used a part of his Palazzo Barolo in Turin as an asylum for the children of workers and which, last but not least, created BAROLO as we know it today. Marquise Juliette left the hill to Giuseppe Boschis, who worked those vineyards. Since then that hill has been called Bricco Boschis.
In 1928 our great-grandfather Giacomo Cavallotto acquired the entire property , creating the Cavallotto Estate. From here on out it’s a family story. In 1946 Olivio and Gildo, under the watchful eye of their father Giuseppe and uncle Marcello, vinified their entire grape production for the first time. By creating the first bottles made exclusively with the grapes of this hill.
1948 was a turning point: the cellar was enlarged and the marketing of the first bottles of Barolo with the Cavallotto label began . We have to wait for the Barolo of the 1967 vintage to see the wording Bricco Boschis. Since 1970 Bricco Boschis has been better specified with the addition of the individual vineyards that make it up: Vigna San Giuseppe, Vigna Colle Sud-Ovest, Vigna Punta Marcello and the Barbera d’Alba Vigna Cuculo.
Today it is we – Alfio, Giuseppe and Laura – who lead the Cavallotto estate, respecting the tradition of this hill and of our family. Below Bricco Boschis we have created the aging department for noble wines, which joins the bottling room and the refinement room, born in 1994 and expanded in 2008. The story continues.
