Enrico Scavino, ‘Barolo Boy’ and proprietor of Paolo Scavino winery in Piemonte, has died at the age of 82 due to complications from surgery. View this post on Instagram
Scavino was the grandson of Lorenzo Scavino, who founded the winery in 1921. Enrico Scavino’s father, Paolo, would set up his own winery when the family estate was split in 1943, shortly after Enrico was born. He would begin working in the winery in 1951 at the age of 10. In 1978, working with his father, he would produce Paolo Scavino’s first single-cru wine, Bric dël Fiasc Barolo, which takes its name from the Piemontese for the top of the south-west facing, limestone soil Fiasco vineyard, which had been part of the family since Lorenzo acquired it in 1921. Today, the winery owns 30 hectares and works over 20 Barolo crus, from Monvigliero in the north to Ravera in the south. Over time Enrico Scanvino would innovate the estate’s winemaking, including utilising rotofermenters from the 1990s in order to accelerate colour and tannin extraction from the Nebbiolo. He was also reportedly always conscious of making sure that the presence of oak was more subtle in his wines, and that he wanted to show the terroir-driven quality of
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