Produttori del Barbaresco is a cooperative in the town of Barbaresco. Don Fiorino Marengo, the parish priest, brought nineteen farmers together in 1958 to found it, and the first vintage was vinified in the courtyard of his house. The winery building at the foot of the Barbaresco tower was finished in 1960. It had a predecessor: Domizio Cavazza founded the Cantine Sociali di Barbaresco in 1894 with nine farmers and landowners.
Today over fifty member families tend about 120 hectares, all Nebbiolo. The winery says it is still the only single-grape winery in the Langhe. It bottles around 650,000 bottles a year, which is a large share of a denomination that has about 800 hectares of Nebbiolo across four municipalities.
The standard Barbaresco ages about 20 months in large barrels. In excellent vintages they also make nine single-cru Riserva wines, which are released after four years and spend about 30 months in barrel.
Not tasted yet
I haven't reviewed a wine from Produttori del Barbaresco yet. They're on my Top 100 list, which is built from awards.