Langa Style Wines Barbaresco) Started Promoting Each Other in 2007 by Banding Together As “Langa Style” for Trade Shows in February 2021 Europe and Around the World

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The Langa Style group is comprised of five winemaking families who produce wines throughout the hills of Barolo, Barbaresco, and Moscato d’Asti. Each features their own personality and label.

Enzo Rapalino of La Ganghija (Treiso Barbaresco); Giuliano Luorio of Azienda Agricola Mustela (Trezzo Tinella); Ezio and Massimo Negretti of Negretti (La Morra, Barolo); Lorenzo Olivero of Olivero Mario (Roddi, Barolo); and Davide Viglino from Vigin (Trieso, Langa Style Wines Barbaresco) started promoting each other in 2007 by banding together as “Langa Style” for trade shows in February 2021 Europe and around the world.

Aleks Pantic of Domace Vino recognized these young producers as up-and-coming winemakers. Through partnership with them, he created the Langa Style label featuring fine wines from these five family vineyards, showcasing the beauty of Piedmontese wines that consistently over-deliver in quality for their price point.

Piedmont, “Foot of the Mountain,” is situated at the foot of the Alps in northwestern Italy bordering Switzerland and France. This region still embraces farm-driven winemaking compared with more developed regions like Tuscany. Langhe is southwest of the city of Alba along the south bank of the Tanaro River. It encompasses three major wine-growing regions: Barolo, Barbaresco, and Roero, producing wines like Nebbiolo (Barolo and Barbaresco), Barbera, and Dolcetto.

The region’s soil is mainly limestone and clay, with subsoil composed of clay, limestone marl, tufa, sulphurous sands, and chalk. This layering of different elements gives the wines their elegance and structure.

The Langhe hills are known for their morning mists and thick fog that rolls through the mountains and valleys. It’s commonly believed that the Nebbiolo grape takes its name from la nebbia, the Italian word for fog. In the Langhe, fog helps to prolong the Nebbiolo ripening season, yielding aromatic wines that are high in acid, alcohol, and tannins with excellent aging potential.

Nebbiolo is the red Italian grape varietal predominantly associated with the Piedmont region. It underlies the Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) wines of Barolo, Barbaresco, and Langhe Nebbiolo. As they age, these wines take on a characteristic brick-orange hue at the rim of the glass and mature to reveal aromas and flavors like violets, tar, wild herbs, cherries, raspberries, tobacco, truffles, and prunes. Nebbiolo wines can require years of aging to balance the tannins with other characteristics.

The two best known Nebbiolo based wines are the DOCG wines of Barolo and Barbaresco, both near Alba. Barbaresco wines are considered the lighter of the two and have less stringent DOCG regulations, with normale bottlings requiring only 9 months in oak and 21 months of total aging; riserva bottlings require 45 total months of aging. The Barolo DOCG, on the other hand, requires 1 year in oak and 3 years total aging for normale bottlings and 57 months total aging for riserva.

Langhe Bianco

lush mouthfeel with 50% Arneis, 50% 6 months in stainless fresh and fruity with stone fruits, sage, white Chardonnay steel floral and herbal notes flower, and mineral

Langhe Rosso

12 months in barrel aged fresh red berries and red lifted strawberry, cherry, 45% Nebbiolo, 45% separately, then blended currant with a balsamic and blueberry tones with Barbera, 10% Dolcetto together undertone a long finish

Langhe Barbera

full body with high tones bright red cherry, oak, 100% Barbera 12 months in barrel of cherry and slight and spices vanilla

Langhe Nebbiolo fresh fruit with earthy fresh plum, tart cherry, notes, fresh tobacco, and 100% Nebbiolo 12 months in barrel rose, and tobacco great tannins