Sordo Giovanni
The Azienda Agricola Giovanni Sordo is located in the heart of the well-known Barolo District, inside the Langhe Region in the South of Piedmont hills. It’s a family-run winery, now in the capable hands of Giorgio – Giovanni’s son, the third generation of a family who has been tending and producing wines for more than a century. The estate was founded in 1912 by the great-father Giuseppe but the real turn over came with his son Giovanni who, together with his wife Maria, the real witness of the family’s story, bought several vineyards of Nebbiolo for Barolo, the Sorì in Piedmontese language, among the best in the Barolo Wine District.
Today the Sordo Family owns 53 hectares, spreaded out in the municipalities of Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d’Alba, Monforte d’Alba, Barolo, Novello, La Morra, Verduno, Grinzane Cavour and Vezza d’Alba around Langhe and Roero region.
Sordo is unique. It’s the only existing winery which can boast 8 different kinds of Barolo CRU: “Monvigliero” in Verduno, “Ravera” in Novello, “Perno” in Monforte d’Alba, “Gabutti” in Serralunga d’Alba and the last four CRU in Castiglione Falletto “Parussi”, “Rocche di Castiglione”, “Villero” and “Monprivato”.
The Sordo Family proposes a guided visit in the historical cellars founded in 1912. Through this tour you could discover the entire production cycle of the Sordo wines, from vinification to the salons with 135 big Slavonian oak barrels for aging the Barolo wines, where you could also visit the evocative “infernot”, 12 meters underground. The tour continues through the tunnel for aging of the wines in large bottles (magnum & jèroboam format) that leads you to the new winery, built in 2014, the result of a modern architectural project – from outside seems like two big barrels cut in half – desired by Giorgio Sordo. Here you could explore the new bottling area and the storage of the bottles with the “Riserva” mention of Barolo that goes back to 1989. Opposite to the show-room, you have the panoramic salon where you could taste the Sordo labels with the different shades of our wine tasting suggestions.
