Every family has a story to share; this is ours. Like our vines our lives and farm are deeply rooted in this beautiful countryside. Dogliani is a land that rewards those who like our family prepared to challenge themselves by putting their heart and soul into cultivating the fruits of its soil.

During the Second World War our grandfather Gabriele Marengo was sent to the battlefields of Albania, Greece and North Africa. Whilst he endured years of captivity as a prisoner of war far from home his wife Maria struggled to raise two young children alone. As everyone living around her was struggling, Maria had to travel beyond Piedmont to sell or barter her wine. She rode her bicycle, loaded with heavy Demijohns of her wine to Liguria-an incredibly difficult feat essential for the survival of her family. She retraced many times the ancient “Vie del Sale” (Salt Road) whose steep, narrow paths were once traversed by sturdy mules loaded with packsaddles of salt.

Margherita Olocco, Piergiorgio’s mother survived the hardships of the war thanks to her mother Maria’s sacrifices. Margherita and her husband Virginio ran a “cascina.” The business operated, as it was customary to do so in the 1950s and 1960s by buying in grapes and wine. They blended and marketed the wines and created the foundation of today’s business.

At the beginning of the 1980s, when Piergiorgio took over the running of the business from his parents, he decided to alter the approach. He become an integrated winemaker. First, he bought his first vineyard from his future father-in-law, a  “vignotta” (small vineyard). From this humble base over the years step by step, row by row, with a lot of efforts and sacrifices, we acquired 14 hectares of vineyards (in addition to the hazel and poplar groves) that make up our property.

Today we produce on average each harvest 33,000 bottles.