Conterno’s 2004 Barolo Colonnello reveals a core of ripe dark cherries and a beautifully layered, sweet personality with superb length and a refined, fresh finish. With air the wine’s perfumed, spiced qualities emerge to complete this terrific effort. The Colonnello vineyard lies on the Monforte border with Barolo, with which it shares several attributes. A higher percentage of sand in Colonnello gives the wine its signature aromatics and refined tannins. This is an especially successful vintage for this wine. 94 Points Wine Advocate # 174, Antonio Galloni

Aldo Conterno’s family have been producing the great wines of Piedmont for more than five generations. Their winery is situated in Bussia at Monforte d’Alba and is devoted to the vinification of grapes coming exclusively from their vineyards in the neighboring hills of Alba, which are in the heart of the production zone of Barolo. Eighty percent of the vineyards are exposed south-southwestwards and lay at an altitude of 480m above sea level. The soil is mainly composed of layers of brownish – grey sand of medium density alternated with calcerous white and blueish marl. Conscious work in the vineyard, controlled must fermentation, and traditional systems of ageing combine to produce great wines of fine quality.