LLS VDI 2019

BOROLI | Piemonte

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BOROLI

The Boroli family is a family of entrepreneurs, with roots in Piedmont dating back to as early as 1831. The family did not embark in the winemaking business until 1997, when Silvano and Elena Boroli felt an ardent desire to step away from the pressures of their publishing business and reconnect to nature. Silvano and Elena grew the company until their son, Achille, stepped in to run the wine-growing and production business in 2012. Achille grew up studying wine by experiencing every level of the winemaking process in a tactile and sensorymanner. For years, he shadowed thewinemaker at his family’s winery, tasting samples fromevery barrel, touching every bunch of grapes, smelling every oak barrique, until he developed an intuition. That intuition, pairedwith precise vineyardmanagement andwinemaking techniques, are the tools Achille uses to make wines of the highest quality today. With the 2012 grape harvest Achille decided to radically change the methods used in vineyards and wineries, aiming for the highest quality in Barolo and its crus. He cut production levels, updated thewinemaking technology, and focused on low interventionmethods to raise the quality of the Boroli wines be on par with the finest Barolo wines. “Boroli wines are the highest expression of the philosophy of our job: quality with no compromises.” – Achille Boroli.

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