Cigliuti fratelli

I was totally blown away by the wines I tasted at Cigliuti this year. | The 2020 Barbarescos in particular are among the best wines I've ever tasted here. Both wines spent approximately 20 days on the skins, followed by 26 by Barbaresco standards. Cigliuti is not a new name, yet the wines remain surprisingly under the radar. - Antonio Galloni, 2023 October

F.lli Cigliuti (Cigliuti brothers) has belonged to the Cigliuti family for four generations.

This small family estate is located in the historical village of Neive in the Langhe hills of Piedmont. Their vineyards comprise 7.5 hectares with 6 hectares in the Barbaresco Cru of Serraboella and 1.5 hectares in the Bricco di Neive Cru; they make approximately 30,000 bottles a year.

Cigliuti use organic farming practices, and the vineyards are looked after by Renato Cigliuti, his wife, Dina, and their two daughters, Claudia and Silvia.

In the Serraboella Cru there are chalky, limestone soils which produce wines with structure and concentration. Barbera d’Alba ‘Campass’ is made from the Campass vineyard which is a plot within the Serraboella Cru with more clay in the soils.
Then, in the Bricco di Neive Cru there are sandy soils which create wines with elegance. Barbaresco Vie Erte is a proprietary name meaning ‘steep vineyards’, and the grapes for this wine are from the Bricco di Neive Cru.
The Langhe Nebbiolo comes from this same vineyard but receives less ageing and is made for drinking young.

For the winemaking, they are hands-off in their approach preferring that the wine take its natural course.
They use indigenous yeast and ferment in temperature controlled stainless steel vats.
Then, ageing takes place in a combination of large Slavonian oak botti and French oak tonneau (500-litre) for Barbaresco Serraboella.
For the Barbaresco Vie Erte ageing is in Slavonian oak botti, and for Nebbiolo Langhe ageing is in stainless steel and then Slavonian oak botti.
For the Barbera d’Alba Campass ageing is in a combination of 20% new French oak barriques and second-use barriques.

Cigliuti exemplifies a family committed to their land and to producing quality wine, showing the very best that Barbaresco has to offer.