An evening with Barolo Ratti with Pietro Ratti - 10/14/26
What: An evening with Barolo Ratti with Special Guest Pietro Ratti
Time and Date: 5:30 pm to 7 pm, Wednesday October 14th, 2026
Cost: $50 per person. Price includes a seated tasting guided by Pietro and a $25 store credit issued with your purchase.
Seats: 16 available
Where: The Cellar Room at Flatiron Wines & Spirits, San Francisco
We are thrilled to be welcoming Pietro Ratti, owner and winemaker of Ratti in La Morra, for a seated seminar on Wednesday, October 14th at 5:30 pm.
Barolo is a region of named vineyards now, the way Burgundy is. It wasn't always, and the reason it is has a great deal to do with one family above the Abbey of the Annunziata.
Renato Ratti came home to Piedmont in 1965 after a decade abroad, bought a small parcel below the abbey, and did something nobody in Barolo had done: he bottled it on its own and put the vineyard's name on the label. That wine was Marcenasco, the first single-cru Barolo. He had spent time in Burgundy and returned convinced that the Langhe deserved the same reading, hill by hill. In 1976 he drew the map to prove it, a hand-made classification of Barolo's historic vineyards that ranked the sites we now take for granted as the region's greatest. It carried no official weight whatsoever. Growers, merchants and writers used it anyway, and when Barolo finally registered its single vineyards as MGAs in 2010, the region was largely ratifying what Renato had drawn thirty-four years earlier.
Renato died in 1988, and Pietro took over that autumn in his early twenties. He has now been making wine at Ratti far longer than his father did, and he has spent those decades in the vineyards: buying and restoring parcels across La Morra, moving the estate to entirely estate-grown fruit from the 2004 vintage, and refining a house style that reads less as modern or traditional than simply exact. Last autumn he reopened his father's museum of Barolo in the old monastery cellars at the Annunziata, built around the idea that made the family's name.
Everything Ratti farms lies within La Morra, the highest and most perfumed commune in the zone, and the cru bottlings come from Rocche dell'Annunziata, Conca and Serradenari. Tasted side by side, they make the argument for the map better than any argument could.
Join us for two hours with the man who carries one of Barolo's most consequential legacies, and who is making the best wines in his family's history.
Seats are limited, so please act fast!
