At A Glance
Producer: Azienda Agricola Enzo Boglietti Village: La Morra Region: Langhe, Piemonte Grapes: Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto Key bottles: Barolo Arione, Barolo Brunate, Barolo Boiolo, Barolo Case Nere, Barolo Fossati Founded: 1991 Hectares: 22 across six communes Annual production: ~100,000 bottles
The Producer
Enzo Boglietti farms from a base in La Morra, in the Langhe hills of Piemonte, where the estate he and his brother Gianni founded in 1991 has grown from a 2.5-hectare family inheritance into a 22-hectare operation spread across six communes. Five of those communes contribute Nebbiolo for single-vineyard Barolo: each parcel is vinified separately and bottled under its own cru name.
The Boglietti family has farmed La Morra for more than a century. Enzo's grandfathers Matteo, born in 1899, and Giovanni Montanaro, born in 1900, both worked the land here. Enzo's father Renato continued that work for 25 years as a skilled vineyard worker before the brothers took formal ownership. When Enzo and Gianni founded the estate, they were not starting from nothing; they were converting a polyculture holding into a dedicated wine farm at a moment when Barolo was beginning to sharpen its international profile.
Since 2019, Enzo's children Linda and Matteo have run day-to-day operations. Matteo manages the vineyards; Linda oversees the cellar. The division of labour mirrors the brothers' original split.
Place
La Morra is one of the six communes entitled to produce Barolo, the Nebbiolo-based DOCG wine of the Langhe. The commune sits on the western edge of the Barolo zone and is characterised by Helvetian clay soils: heavy, cool, and capable of producing Barolo with generous fruit and relatively approachable tannin in the early years.
But the Boglietti estate does not stay in La Morra. Its 22 hectares run across six communes, reaching as far east as Serralunga d'Alba, where the geology shifts to the older, sandier Helvetian soils of the Serralunga ridge. That shift matters at the label level: a Barolo from La Morra clay and a Barolo from Serralunga sand are not interchangeable wines, even from the same cellar. The range exists because the communes do different things to the same grape.
Soil And Site
The La Morra parcels, Brunate and Boiolo, sit on the heavier clay typical of the western Barolo communes. Clay retains water, slows ripening, and tends to produce Barolo with fuller body and softer tannin grain.
Arione, the easternmost parcel in the range, tells a different story. It sits at approximately 450 metres in Serralunga d'Alba, on soils that are silty, alkaline, and rich in sand and marine fossils, with low organic matter. The elevation and the leaner soil type slow sugar accumulation and produce firmer, more mineral Nebbiolo. The southwest and south exposure compensates, allowing consistent ripening at altitude. Marine fossil deposits in the soil are a marker of Serralunga's ancient seabed geology, which distinguishes its wines from those grown on the geologically younger clay formations further west.
Story
When Enzo and Gianni Boglietti registered the estate in 1991, they inherited 2.5 hectares that had been farmed as polyculture land: vines mixed with other crops, the common arrangement for Langhe smallholders of their fathers' generation. Converting that land to a single-crop wine estate was a committed choice at a time when Barolo was building the international reputation that would make such commitment viable.
Over the following three decades, the brothers expanded parcel by parcel, moving east from La Morra into Barolo, Monforte d'Alba, Roddino, Serralunga d'Alba, and Sinio. Each acquisition added a different soil type or elevation to the portfolio and, by extension, a different Nebbiolo character to the range. Organic viticulture certification came in 2017, formalising a direction in vineyard management that had been building for years.
In 2019, Gianni stepped back from daily management and Enzo's children Linda and Matteo took over the operational roles. The century-long family relationship with La Morra vine farming continued, now in its third generation.
Vineyards And Cellar
The estate holds five principal Barolo parcels, each vinified separately.
Vinifying five crus separately from a total of 22 hectares means production volumes for each single-vineyard Barolo are small. Across the entire Barolo range, the estate produces between 15,000 and 21,000 bottles per vintage, depending on yield. The rest of the 100,000-bottle annual output comes from Nebbiolo Langhe, Barbera d'Alba, and Dolcetto d'Alba, made from fruit across the broader holdings.
Linda's cellar work reflects the parcel-by-parcel philosophy established at the estate's founding: each cru reaches the bottle without being blended into the others, preserving the distinctions the different soils and elevations create in the vineyard.
Wines
The range is built in two clear tiers. The village and varietal wines, Nebbiolo Langhe, Barbera d'Alba, and Dolcetto d'Alba, draw on younger parcels and broader holdings across the six communes. These are lighter-framed, earlier-drinking wines that carry the house palate without the weight of long maceration or extended ageing.
Brunate, Boiolo, Case Nere, and Fossati are La Morra parcels on clay soils, with different slope angles and exposures.
Arione stands apart. Grown on the sandier, alkaline, fossil-bearing soils of Serralunga at 450 metres, it produces Barolo with firm mineral grip, slower development, and the kind of velvety tannin texture that comes from long, even ripening rather than concentration. It is the most site-distinct bottle in the range.
In The Glass
The La Morra crus are grown on clay soils and produce rounder tannin than the Serralunga Nebbiolo.
Arione is grown on sandier, alkaline soils with marine fossils at 450m in Serralunga d'Alba, which produces a firmer, more mineral Nebbiolo than the clay grown La Morra crus.
Across the whole estate range, from Dolcetto to Barolo Arione, the wines carry a common thread of careful fruit handling and site respect. Barbera d'Alba and Nebbiolo Langhe draw on younger parcels and broader holdings across the six communes.
A Bottle To Understand It
Barolo Arione is the right first bottle. It is a single-vineyard Nebbiolo from 0.7 hectares in Serralunga d'Alba, farmed organically at 450 metres on silty, sand-rich soil that carries marine fossils in its alkaline subsoil. In the glass, it is firm and mineral, with dried rose, tar, and red fruit on the nose, a long, taut mid-palate, fine-grained tannin, and a finish that runs clean and saline well past where most Barolo stops. It shows what the estate is doing at its most site-specific: one small parcel, one soil type, one elevation, one grape, bottled without blending.
Anecdote
Enzo and Gianni Boglietti's father Renato spent 25 years working the family land in La Morra as a skilled vineyard worker, farming it the way his own father had: mixed crops, no single-minded wine focus, the ordinary arrangement of a Langhe smallholding in the mid-twentieth century. When Enzo and Gianni took over and founded the estate in 1991, they inherited 2.5 hectares of that polyculture land. They pulled the farm onto a single track, planted to vines and aimed at Barolo, at a moment when the appellation was only beginning to find buyers who would pay for a name from La Morra rather than simply a bottle from Piemonte. Renato had worked the same ground for a quarter of a century without that outcome in view.
Final Word
Enzo Boglietti is a multi-commune Barolo estate built parcel by parcel over three decades from a 2.5-hectare inheritance in La Morra. Five single-vineyard Barolos now span the clay soils of the western communes and the sandier, higher ground of Serralunga d'Alba. The Arione cru at 450 metres gives the clearest argument for why the geography matters: different soil, different elevation, markedly different wine from the same grape and the same cellar. The third generation, Linda in the cellar and Matteo in the vineyards, is now running the estate that Renato's sons built from what Renato's father planted.