List of products by brand Elvio Cogno

The Elvio Cogno winery produces the great wines of the Langhe by running about fifteen hectares of estate vineyards in Novello, one of the eleven municipalities in the province of Cuneo where Barolo Docg is allowed to be produced.

Hills famous for their history, culture and beauty, recently recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Following in the footsteps of founder Elvio Cogno, Nadia Cogno and Valter Fissore today gather the experience of more than four generations of winemakers dedicated to achieving oenological excellence from a unique terroir, world-famous for the elegance, texture and balance of its wines.

With four types of Barolo and eleven and a half hectares of vineyards in the Ravera locality, Cogno is the most important winemaker in the Menzione Geografica Aggiuntiva (MeGA) "Ravera," the most renowned cru of Novello, recognized for the ability of its wines to withstand time while maintaining fragrance and freshness.

The Elvio Cogno winery is located in Novello, a town in the Barolo area that the Cogno family is committed to enhancing through production that is closely linked to the Langhe and its oenological excellence. Elvio Cogno began to mature the idea of making wine while working at Ristorante dell'Angelo in La Morra, with the intention of taking up the family tradition of cultivating vines for passion and turning it into a business. Thus in the 1950s Elvio left the restaurant business and began working with the Marcarini winery to make high-quality wines, bottling the first Barolo with the historic 1961 vintage. Three years later the producer was among the first to market a Barolo with the name of the vineyard of origin: Brunate, setting himself up as a pioneer of modern Additional Geographical Mentions. 1990 then marked a very important transition, when Elvio decided to produce totally independently after acquiring Cascina Nuova in the Ravera locality in Novello. In 1996 the winemaker left the reins of the estate to his son-in-law Valter Fissore and daughter Nadia Cogno, who continued the work of expanding the vineyard park and modernizing the equipment, definitively consecrating the winery as one of the most important realities in the entire Novello area.

The Elvio Cogno estate has 15 hectares of vineyards, conducted organically and dedicated to the traditional Langhe varieties Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto and Nascetta. Agronomic practices adopted include green manuring with herbaceous plants, organic fertilization from earthworm humus and the use of essential oils and microcrystals to replace fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides. The soils on which the grapes grow are at an altitude of about 380 meters above sea level and are particularly rich in clay and limestone, as well as mineral elements. The winemaking approach is traditional, based on long spontaneous fermentations in stainless steel tanks, slow extractions and prolonged aging in large Slavonian oak barrels.

The range of labels from the Elvio Cogno winery sees Barolo as the protagonist, interpreted with the Ravera 'Vigna Elena', Ravera 'Bricco di Pernice', Ravera and 'Cascina Nuova' crus. The quality of the rest of the selection is also excellent, with a special mention for the Barbera d'Alba 'Pre-Phylloxera,' produced from vines over 100 years old grown without grafting.