Tenuta Cucco

The vineyard was famous before the winery existed. Grapes from Vigna Cucco were fought over by local growers to blend into some of Serralunga's most respected Barolos, long before there was a label of its own. "Cucco" means hilltop in Piedmontese dialect, and it names the highest, oldest part of the vineyard, inside the Cerrati cru.

The winery arrived in 1966, when the Cappellano family sold the estate to the Stroppiana, who built the first cellar; the first Barolo Serralunga d'Alba came out in 1967. The rest of the range appeared slowly: Vigna Cucco in 1986, Cerrati in 1996 and Bricco Voghera only since 2017.

In January 2015 the property passed to the Rossi Cairo family, who for more than twenty years have run La Raia, in Novi Ligure, organically and biodynamically. They brought that way of working with them: in November 2018 Tenuta Cucco completed a three-year conversion and was certified organic. The oenologist is Clara Milani, who also looks after La Raia.

There are two crus, Cerrati and Bricco Voghera, both on the eastern slope of Serralunga's long crest, between 250 and 400 metres, on limestone-rich soils veined with sand. Picking is done by hand into crates, parcel by parcel, and production is around 70,000 bottles a year.