Barolo Ravera 2021

The Barolo DOCG 'Ravera' 2022 by G.D. Vajra stands as a monument of precision, verticality, and terroir expression, representing the benchmark single-vineyard MGA of the Novello commune. The Ravera amphitheater forms a dramatic, south-facing natural bowl perched between 300 and 380 meters above sea level. Here, Nebbiolo vines thrive on a complex geological intersection of Tortonian marls, sandstone, and Serravallian clays, imparting exceptional structural tension, verticality, and saline minerality to the wine.

Guided by the Vaira family's pioneering organic legacy (certified organic since 1971 with over 50 years of spontaneous cover cropping), the vineyard is farmed with obsessive manual care. The 2022 harvest, picked from October 4th, underwent rigorous triple manual sorting (in the vineyard, on sorting tables, and berry-by-berry post-destemming). Cellar protocols honor extended traditional macerations: fermentation in wooden truncated-cone vats followed by an extraordinary 47-day submerged-cap skin contact. The wine matured for 22 months in large 25 and 50-hectoliter Slavonian oak casks before being bottled on May 19, 2025. Vajra's 2022 Ravera emerges as a profoundly layered, age-worthy Barolo—soaring with dark cherry, blood orange, star anise, wet clay, and iron minerality, framed by expansive, seamless tannins.