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Vini Classici Borgogno S.r.l.

Italy

When a great wine connoisseur hears the word “Barolo”, he will inevitably think  about  Borgogno. Founded in 1761, it is in fact the winery of Piedmont. Furthermore, it  can boast other achievements: in 1861 the  elebratory lunch for the Unification of Italy was  celebrated with a toast of Barolo Borgogno; in 1886 Nicola II Romanov, zar of Russia, opened  a bottle of Barolo Borgogno during the dinner organized in his honor by the Savoy family. Cesare Borgogno was the genius who decided the fate of the cellar starting in 1920: he invented the first model of wine distribution  in Italy, he was among the first to promote Barolo in the world, and he made the smart  move of putting aside 20,000 bottles of each  great vintage of Barolo as “Riserva” for at least  20 years, a move that marked the future of Borgogno