From left: the Lageder family, Alois, wife Veronika and sixth-generation children Anna, Helena and Alois Clemens.
In 1983, the first French oak barriques arrived in Barolo. Elio, son of Giuseppe Altare, who had founded his estate in La Morra in 1948, had seen first-hand the affluence of winemakers in Burgundy during a visit to the region in the 1970s.
The situation there was in stark contrast to that in the Langhe, northwest Italy, where producers were struggling to make ends meet.
Returning to the family estate and inspired by what he had seen, in the summer of 1978, Elio began removing unripened bunches of grapes from the vines in the manner of the Burgundian winemakers, much to his father’s horror.
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