Figli Luigi Oddero Convento Barolo 2018

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Figli Luigi Oddero farms 35 hectares of Nebbiolo across Barolo and Barbaresco, on an estate whose property was once a seventeenth-century convent — the inspiration for the Convento label. In lesser vintages the family historically sold much of its fruit in bulk while reserving its finest sites for the flagship Barolo Tradizionale; Convento is bottled only in exceptional years, drawn mainly from parcels in La Morra. It is made in the traditional manner: natural fermentation in stainless steel with a twenty-five-day maceration, followed by two years' aging in large Slavonian oak casks, the same process used for the Tradizionale bottling.