01
Only what is there
In 2020 and 2021 there was no Riserva. Nobody forces us to make it every year, and a label that comes out the same every vintage is a label that tells you nothing about the year.
§ 02 — The estate
One family, one notebook, eighteen hectares.
Sìdero is the Greek word for iron, and iron is what you smell in the Sèrrone clay when you break a clod in your hand. The estate has been there since 1968, and every harvest since has been written into a ledger — our way of not telling ourselves stories at the end of the year.
- Hectares under vine
- 18,1
- Parcels
- 6
- 2025 bottles
- 37.600
- People
- 7
§ 02.1
Three dates
Fifty-eight years in three lines.
- 1968
The first ledger
Our grandfather Antonio buys three hectares at Sèrrone and starts writing down, in a squared notebook, how much he picks, how much he sells and to whom. That notebook still exists, and we have kept one ever since.
- 1994
Bottling begins
Until that year the fruit went to the co-operative. Our father decides to keep part of it and bottle it under his own label: 2,400 bottles, nearly all sold within twenty kilometres.
- 2016
Beyond the province
The first fair abroad, in Düsseldorf, with two cases and no idea what to say. Today a third of production leaves Italy, and the most useful lesson came from there: explain Gaglioppo before you pour it.
§ 02.2
How we work
Three rules, none of them cosmetic.
02
By hand, where it counts
Harvest into 15 kg crates across every parcel, hand pruning everywhere. The rest — pumps, press, bottling line — is mechanical, and that is entirely fine.
03
No new oak
Concrete for the red and the rosato, steel for the white, large oak casks with at least six years of service for the Riserva. Gaglioppo already has a character: it does not need us to lend it another.
§ 02.3
The year in the vineyard
Where we are in the cycle, right now.
Right now
Harvest
By hand, in 15 kg crates. In 2025 it took just fourteen days.
- Pruning
- J — F
- Budburst
- M — A
- Flowering
- M — J
- Veraison
- J — A
- Harvest
- S — O
- Dormancy
- N — D