Filippo Bartolotta reports on this year’s Barolo en primeur, the largest charity event in the Italian wine calendar, on some of the most important lots to come from the “complicated” 2022 vintage. €811,000 is the new record for the Barolo en primeur auction. A few days ago, at Grinzane Cavour Castle, connected live from the Christie’s offices in New York and London, the largest and most important Italian charity wine event saw a new success with plenty of philanthropists and investors donating for good causes. Promoted and organised by the Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo Foundation, the CRC Donare ETS Foundation in collaboration with the Barolo, Barbaresco, Alba, Langhe and Dogliani Consortium, in three years, the auction has raised a total of more than €2.3 million. “In the first three editions, thanks to Barolo en primeur we managed to allocate the sum of more than €2.3m to projects with charitable purposes, in Italy and around the world,” comments Ezio Raviola, president of the CRC Foundation. “An exceptional result for an event that is intertwined with one of the great ambassadors of Made in Italy, Barolo wine, with the values of solidarity, territorial roots and social participation. An extraordinary figure that encourages us on this path in the certainty that Barolo en primeur will be able to continue to grow further.” Under the gavel of Christie’s Italia director Cristiano De Lorenzo, 11 barrel-lots of Barolo Vigna Gustava barriques from the 2022 harvest, each of which will give 270 bottles.
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