{"title":"Claudio Boggione","description":"\u003cp\u003eClaudio Boggione is a secret Barolo producer. He has just one hectare of land. His production is so small that it does not require any \"distribution.\" Instead, a few in-the-know fans drive to his tiny winery and ask to buy a case or two. That is how he sells his entire production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePiedmont is actually full of these sorts of small-scale growers, but very few of them are in Barolo, which is the one part of Piedmont where most wines are produced by large firms. The few micro-growers that do exist in Barolo tend to contribute grapes to the local co-op, where quite ordinary wines are produced from most producers' leftovers (in sharp contrast to the masterpieces produced by Barbaresco's great co-op, the Produttori del Barbaresco).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Claudio B's hectare of land is special, lying in the sweetest spot of the great cru of Brunate, that famous high-altitude site that straddles the communes of Barolo and La Morra. These organically farmed vines were planted 55 years ago. Each grape he grows is a mini-treasure, and it would be a shame to contribute them to the co-op, where they would get lost among the oceans of rejected Barolo grapes. So he makes one wine and bottles it himself, and it is Barolo Brunate.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/claudio-boggione.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}