In the world of wine, there are producers who can boast of having created a style, some on purpose and others through luck or by accident. There are others that can lay claim to having put their region on the map, which is often a case of either a generational shift in the winery or the discovery and promotion of the region by a personality in the wine business. Then there are those who changed the way we looked upon an entire region, which brings modern-day Spain to mind, as visionaries are rethinking everything traditional producers thought they knew.
However, what we seldom hear of today is a producer within one of the world’s most highly regarded, delineated, and researched wine-producing regions, who defined a vineyard’s potential and brought that piece of land to prominence. That is exactly what Renato Cigliuti accomplished with the Serraboella vineyard in Neive, Barbaresco.