Currently, the Elio Grasso estate has a productive vineyard holding of 14 hectares. The cellar uses only estate-grown grapes from varieties traditionally grown, with excellent results, in the Langhe hill country near Alba. Reflecting the imprint of the vineyard where the fruit was grown in order to give our wines their unique personality is the goal that we - myself, my wife Marina and our son, Gianluca - strive to achieve, with the invaluable assistance of our consultant wine technician, Piero Ballario. We believe that to be acknowledged first as grape farmers, and then as wine producers, is the best way to honour, and continue the labours of, those who have faced before us the challenges that working with nature and her products, like wine, entails. This, and a desire to be true to ourselves, prompts us propose, without presumption, the convictions and conduct shared by all Langhe farming families, characteristics worth preserving and which we believe make the difference.
Although our winery has maintained the dimensions of a small producer, we have equipped it appropriately, and provided it with the necessary spaces to work as simply and rationally as possible. The investment was inspired by our over 20-year-long commitment to vinifying all our grapes separately, according to the vineyard of provenance. The cellar thus displays a carefully selected assortment of stainless steel tanks, where all our grapes are fermented, with the single exception of Chardonnay for "Educato", as well as 25-hectolitre Slavonian oak barrels and small 225-litre casks of French oak. Each of these indispensable cellar tools has its own space, where fermentation and maturation is carried out unhurriedly, and with all due attention. Every Elio Grasso wine is given time to mature so it achieves just the right balance before going into bottle. After they have been bottled, the wines age for several more months before emerging from the cellar.
They will have acquired serious ageing potential, but are also ready to be enjoyed when still young.