About the producer
The Oddero name has been tied to La Morra since the 1800s, but Figli Luigi Oddero as it stands today dates to 2006, when brothers Luigi and Giacomo Oddero divided the family's historic holdings. Luigi took with him 32 hectares across some of the Langhe's most decorated vineyard sites: Rive in Santa Maria di La Morra, Rocche dei Rivera in Castiglione Falletto's Scarrone cru, a single prized hectare in Serralunga d'Alba's Vigna Rionda, and Nebbiolo vines in Treiso for Barbaresco. Following Luigi's death in 2010, his wife Lena took over running the estate, bringing in Dante Scaglione, formerly of Bruno Giacosa, to guide the winemaking. Scaglione's protégé Francesco Versio, named Italy's Young Winemaker of the Year in 2015, now continues that work day to day. The house style hasn't shifted: native fermentations, minimal intervention, and long ageing in large Slavonian oak botti, in pursuit of Nebbiolo that shows elegance and structure.
The 2021 and 2023 vintages
2021 and 2023 gave the Langhe two very different growing seasons, and the wines show it. 2021 was a widely-praised, classically balanced Barbaresco year, giving wines of real clarity and persistence, built to reward time in the cellar. 2023 was tougher: a wet spring brought disease pressure, then a summer heatwave pushed temperatures past 40°C, before cooler nights ahead of a late harvest helped Nebbiolo hold onto its acidity and aromatics. The result is a Langhe Nebbiolo full of immediate perfume and energy, all rose, herbal spice and ripe strawberry, and drinking beautifully right now.