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Luigi Baudana

Luigi Baudana and his wife Fiorina live in a town near Serralunga called "Baudana."  Everything seems to have the name Baudana on it...the wineries are all owned by people named Baudana and I passed a trattoria called Baudana on a street called Via Baudana!

uigi Baudana had owned about 5 hectares of vineyards for years.  But it was only recently that he and Mrs. B have made their own wine commercially.  Luigi worked in an enoteca for years before finally taking the big plunge and starting his own wine cellar.  Since they have no kids, the couple sold the vineyards and winery to the Vajra family from way over in Vergne, an elevated town in the western part of the Barolo appellation.  Aldo and Milena Vajra do have kids and so this beautifully extends the family enterprise.

A full range of wines is produced at Baudana, including an interesting proprietary white wine called Lorense.  But it is Barolo that is of major interest.

The wines of this producer demonstrate the notion of "terroir."  That is, the wines taste like Barolo, but with a particular character of Barolo.  The Serralunga region is regarded as producing wines of cellar-worthy structure, even more so than those from Castiglione Falletto, La Morra, Monforte, etc.