{"title":"Guido Porro","description":"\u003cp\u003eGuido Porro is one of the many under-the-radar producers that has been making high-quality, traditional-minded Barolos for decades – five generations in this case – with hardly anyone in the United States knowing. Part of it is location: Porro is a Serralunga producer. Serralunga is a relative backwater, dominated by small, humble farmers (like Porro) rather than the larger firms further to the west that were historically connected with the Savoyard aristocracy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnother issue is brand. The Rinaldis and Mascarellos of this world have long bottled their own wines and affixed labels with their names. They thus became icons. But for multiple generations the Porro family sold off barrels of wine for other people to label. So the name Porro was known only to a few insiders.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat Porro does have in common with the Rinaldis and Mascarellos is style: very traditional. Other than starting to bottle their own wine, the family has barely changed their wine-making or vineyard practices over the generations. This does not mean that the wines produced were always brilliant. But in recent vintages – produced by 4th generation Guido and his 5th generation  son Fabio – the wines have very much been brilliant. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/guido-porro.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}