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Barolo en primeur 2025

The 2025 edition of Barolo en primeur set a new record for generosity, raising a total of € 1,130,300.00.

The success was made possible thanks to the donors present at Grinzane Cavour Castle, in London, in New York, and via live streaming, making the auction a truly global event.

This extraordinary fundraising will help to support more than 20 charitable projects in Italy and around the world.

The charity auction, promoted by Fondazione CRC Donare ETS, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, and the Consorzio di Tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Dogliani, brings the total amount raised over all five editions of Barolo en primeur to over € 4.5 million, benefiting nearly 100 social and cultural projects.

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Barolo en primeur 2024

The fourth edition of Barolo en primeur raised donations from New York, London, Montreal and China, reaching the record amount of 1,027,000 euros.

In the evocative setting of the Grinzane Cavour Castle and in live streaming with New York and London, Barolo en primeur 2024, the charity fundraising auction for non-profit entities and projects, conducted by the auction house Christie’s, took place on 25 October and reached the total of 3,4 milions of euro raised in the first four editions.

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Barolo en primeur

Barolo en primeur is a social responsibility initiative promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, in collaboration with the Fondazione CRC Donare ETS and the Consorzio di Tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Dogliani: a charity competition that is paired with barriques of a prestigious wine such as Barolo while it is still being refined and municipal lots that the producers belonging to the Consorzio have donated.

When the wine has completed its aging from each barrique around 270 bottles will be produced, marked with a unique label created by an internationally renowned artist.

The initiative will subsidize projects and initiatives of social utility in the fields of health, research, arts and culture, social inclusion and the safeguarding of Italy’s cultural heritage.
The funds raised from the municipal lots will be donated to the Scuola Enologica di Alba and other local organizations.

Barolo en primeur is a noble and concrete initiative to promote Barolo and its territory and support various projects of social utility in Piedmont, in Italy and in the world.

The oenological project

The Gustava Vineyard is a piece of land of almost 4 hectares extending over the slopes of the hill of Grinzane Cavour Castle, already planted with vines when the property belonged to Count Camillo Benso.
With the aim of producing top quality Barolo in this historic vineyard, the Fondazione CRC – its owner – has involved Donato Lanati’s Enosis Meraviglia Laboratory. Donati has been tasked with overseeing the whole production process, from the ripening of the grapes to the vinification and subsequent ageing in the bottle.

In the context of Barolo en primeur project, Antonio Galloni, the renowned wine critic, tasted the wine from each barrique and expressed his opinion about how these rare wines capture the essence of Barolo and, in particular, of the Gustava Vineyard.

His tasting notes in which he describes the wine at the specific moment it is tasted and also anticipates its likely evolution are available on the catalog dedicated to the auction and on the Fondazione CRC Donare ETS YouTube channel.

Vigna Gustava

With the acquisition of the Cascina Gustava Vineyard in 2019 – the genesis of the Barolo en primeur operation – the Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo Foundation launched an important social project which:

• integrates local development, territorial community involvement, training and economic and social values;
• promotes on-the-job training for the students of the Umberto I High School or the Alba Wine School;
• contributes to supporting socially useful projects, raising funds for “good causes” represented by non-profit organisations that share the aims of this initiative;
• showcases one of the assets of excellence of the Barolo territory, wine production, famed throughout the world, thanks also to a project that is unprecedented for Italy, that is, the auctioning of wine en primeur for solidarity purposes.

The surface of the Gustava Vineyard planted with Nebbiolo has been divided into four macro plots, according to altitude and exposure. Two different criteria were adopted for gathering the grapes during the 2020 harvest: the first was to identify the historical vines planted over 50 years ago, in order to vinify the grapes separately from the younger ones; the second criterion, on the other hand, was to harvest the remaining grapes in the vineyard by micro-zones.

This method of precision harvesting shows how the potential of a wine, in addition to exposure and climatic and seasonal trends, depends mainly on the ability of the vine roots to enter into symbiosis with the micro-organisms present in that specific portion of land, enabling the plants to absorb micro-elements and organic substances, which are different from the adjacent micro-areas, on which the organoleptic differences and, even more so, the longevity of the wine produced will depend. The wines are beginning the ageing phase in which the link between tannins and anthocyanins evolves, aimed at achieving colour stability and brightness. Although it is too early to judge the characteristics of the wine that will be obtained, important differences are already evident both between the wines obtained from the historic vines, compared to the younger ones, and, above all, between the wines obtained from the different micro-zones, highlighting the fact that the vineyard is a complex mosaic of parcels, each with its own clear and specific personality.

The Barolo icon and its territory

The Piedmontese territories of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato are a popular national and international wine tourist attraction, an extraordinary example of the perfect integration of man and the environment, recognised by UNESCO, which has decided to award these territories World Heritage status, the first acknowledgement in the world of a wine-producing area.

The territory of Barolo has become one of the most internationally appreciated wine tourist destinations, inspired by the iconic nature of the wine that bears its name and the rediscovery of the beauty of the area.

Barolo, with its extraordinary international reputation, is already the driving force behind the promotion of the area, also on account of the work of the Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe Dogliani Consortium, which for over seventy years – together with its producers – has been a leading player in the technical, economic and social development of the Langhe wine-growing region.

This is the context in which Barolo en primeur is set, a unique event that aims to promote the remarkable nature of this wine and its territory at an international level.

Professor Bertello’s Books:
a tribute to Vigna Gustava and the area

Each year, on the occasion of Barolo en primeur charity auction, Professor Luciano Bertello presents a unique work that tells the history, the culture, and the traditions of Vigna Gustava and the Langhe region. These books are more than just volumes: they are precious testimonies that preserve and celebrate the knowledge, the passion, and the identity of an extraordinary land.

Fondazione CRC and Fondazione CRC Donare ETS enthusiastically support this project, which embodies the ideals of promoting and enhancing the local culture of Langhe.

Professor Bertello, who chaired the Regional Wine Shop of Roero for a decade, is a passionate scholar of Langhe and Roero. He carries out cultural outreach activities by books, articles, and essays dedicated to food and wine culture, to local history, and to wines, Barolo in particular.

Browse through Professor Bertello’s books and be inspired by the beauty of this tradition.

The social value

The barriques associated with the charity event Barolo en primeur are unique, in a limited number of exemplars, and contain a wine with distinctive characteristics that will not be found in any other bottle, as confirmed by the oenologist Donato Lanati and the wine critic Antonio Galloni. This is the case with the barriques that take centre stage at Barolo en primeur.

These are barriques with a high social value, which will be gifted in this major charity initiative, thanks to which it will be possible to support numerous initiatives and bodies operating in the non-profit field.

A wine, therefore, that is an expression of a territory and its ability to work together in support of programmes of general and social interest.

Terms and conditions governing the solidarity Auction

• All auctioned lots will be delivered in the spring of 2028 anywhere in the world
• All bottles of a lot will bear a label designed by an internationally known artist
• All labels will bear an anti-counterfeiting tag as well as a QR code that links to the tasting notes of wine critic Antonio Galloni
• All resources raised thanks to the Auction will be donated to charity, in favor of projects already identified or to be identified by the successful bidders; there are no commissions of any kind.
• All expenses for the Auction will be borne by the Fondazione CRC and the Fondazione CRC Donare ETS, with no exceptions

Terms and conditions governing the solidarity Auction

The complete regulation will be available to download soon.

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Barolo en primeur 2023

In the scenographic context of the Grinzane Cavour Castle, on 27 October 2023, and in simultaneous connection with New York and London, the third edition of the charity auction to raise funds took place in favor of individuals and projects in the non-profit field, conducted by the house auction house Christie’s.

The third edition ended with the collection of over 877,000 euros, which financed 19 charitable projects.

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Barolo en primeur 2021

In the spectacular setting of the Grinzane Cavour Castle on 30 October 2021, in simultaneous linkup with New York, took place the first edition of the charity event to raise funds for non-profit organisations under the careful direction of Christie’s auction house.

The first edition raised over 660,000 euros, with which 17 charitable projects were financed.

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Barolo en primeur 2022

In the scenographic context of the Grinzane Cavour Castle, on 28 October 2022, and in simultaneous connection with New York, the second edition of the charity auction to raise funds took place in favor of individuals and projects in the non-profit field, conducted by the house auction house Christie’s.

The second edition ended with the collection of over 834,000 euros, which financed 20 charitable projects.

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MEDIA KIT – BAROLO EN PRIMEUR 2022

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