Nicola Manferrari trained as a pharmacist, but he took over the estate in 1981 when his father unexpectedly passed away. It had always been well known locally that the family had the best vineyards in the area; Nicola`s grandfather sold the family wines very easily. Now he dreamed of making world-class white wines that people would age. He has always been very focussed on the letting the quality of terroir speak; from the early days, he avoided anything that might dilute terroir impact, such as fertilisers or irrigation. Nicola is now helped by his son Mattia; when they taste every barrel blindly and can tell from which vineyard it has come, they believe they have done their job well. (NT 02/07/18)