Pio Cesare Piodilei Chardonnay 2019

Pio Cesare Piodilei Chardonnay

Region: Langhe, Piemonte, Italy

Vintage: 2019

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Chardonnay

ABV: 13%

Burgundian in style, this superior Chardonnay shows complexity on the nose and palate. Notes of apple, citrus, stone fruit and vanilla. It is full-bodied and creamy with ripe fruit and an attractive minerality and freshness on the finish.

The grapes for Piodiles are sourced from family-owned Mosconi vineyard in Monforte d’Alba. The fermentation started in stainless steel tanks and finished in French oak barriques, of which one third new.

This historic family-owned estate is named after its founder Cesare Pio, who established the business in 1881. The winery is based in Alba, in the heart of Piemonte and is now run by Federica Boffa and Cesare Benvenuto, the fifth generation of the family. Pio Cesare developed Barolo’s reputation overseas in the 1950s by being one of the first producers to export the wine to the UK. The founder’s great grandson Pio Boffa was deeply convinced of the importance of cultivating and growing owned land to produce high quality wines and played a key role in the acquisition of vineyards in the same locations where Cesare Pio used to buy his grapes from. Today Pio Cesare owns 70 hectares in the hills of Barolo and Barbaresco and makes wines in a style that manages to balance the best of the old with the best of the new.