Renato Fenocchio
In the early 1800s the Fenocchio family, originally from Monforte d'Alba, moved to Barbaresco where they worked as farmers. Following that tradition Renato and Milva Fenocchio (trained architect) created their own winery in 1993, farming grapes and making wine in Neive, a small town about 10 km from the city of Alba.
They operate several vineyards in the Langhe all with different soil compositions, from calcareous-clayey soils with sandy outcrops in Barbaresco and Treiso, to sedimentary clayey-calcareous marl soils, interspersed with gray-blue sandstones typical of the eastern area of Neive. The 11-hectare farm is operated by the two of them and farmed, most importantly, without the use of herbicides and pesticides.
