{"title":"Palladino","description":"\u003cp\u003ePiero Palladino was born in the Langhe but had built his life elsewhere, running a textile company in Biella. In 1974, he and his cousin Maurilio came back and bought a winery in Serralunga d'Alba — and not just any building, but the old Cappellano cellar, an 18th-century structure that served as a convent before becoming the place where Cappellano developed his legendary Chinato.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePalladino’s first vineyard purchase, in the late 1970s, was San Bernardo, and it came together quickly because the parcel belonged to the curia — the Church. Every vineyard after that was harder. The local farmers, Maurilio has said, were wary of selling to two men who weren't from Serralunga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday the estate is run by the next generation — Maurilio's granddaughter Veronica makes the wines alongside her cousin Margherita — and the holdings read like a roll call of Serralunga's best addresses: San Bernardo, Ornato, Parafada, Gabutti, Serra. The style has stayed traditional: long fermentations, large old Slavonian botti, no fashionable polish. The wines are built around the village's old virtues — structure, austerity, savory depth, and a tannic spine that turns profoundly beautiful with time.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/palladino.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}