Tenute Vercellino is an Alto Piemonte–based winery led by Lorenzo Vercellino. A trained oenologist, Lorenzo’s work is guided equally by his individual spirit and by deep ties to his family’s legacy in the region. He began the project alongside his sister Giulia, who returned home in 2020 ahead of their first harvest together. By restoring the cellars beneath the family home — where their parents had long made wine on the side — Lorenzo firmly rooted the winery in its history and heritage. Going one step further, bottles bear the number 1928 on their labels, paying homage to the year their grandmother won a gold medal at the Turin Food and Wine Expo, underscoring how every detail of Tenute Vercellino reflects Lorenzo’s dedication to crafting wines of excellence.

Lorenzo’s meticulous commitment to quality begins in the vineyard. Working across several plots organically, grapes are harvested by hand in small crates at peak ripeness. Giulia, a veterinarian in a nearby village, keeps horses that graze the land and provide biodynamic nourishment to the region’s naturally sandy, low-PH soils. Tenute Vercellino farms across four villages. In Coste della Sesia, Nebbiolo is harvested from two parcels in Valdengo, some from old-vines planted more than to 80-years-ago. In Sant’Andrea, 70-year-old vines of Nebbiolo and Vespolina are tended with the help of a local man named Luigi. Lorenzo is particularly fond of the plots in La Vignetta near the family home, where he grows Coste Nebbiolo alongside his parents. It was here, years earlier, that Lorenzo discovered his love of winemaking — learning to respect the vines, to prune, and to harvest with the aim of producing the best possible raw juice.

In the cellar, Lorenzo relies on spontaneous fermentations or “pied de cuve”, with minimal racking. He draws inspiration from local winemakers such as Mario Fontana in Perno and Christoph Kunzli of Le Piane in Boca Alto Piemonte, using a combination of tank and barrel and varying periods of élevage depending on the fruit. This tailored approach allows each wine to reach its most precise expression. Lorenzo’s wines are as much a reflection of his personality as they are of the terroir that shaped him, the producers who have inspired him, and his ongoing evolution as a winemaker. In the future, he hopes to expand his holdings in Lessona to produce single-vineyard wines that exalt the region’s soils and climate. It is this commitment to both past, present, and future, to soil and to self, that makes his wines such a compelling addition to our Nebbiolo-producing  portfolio.