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Chapter 8
1987, at Casa Sandrone, was a "landmark" year, one of those stretches of time that must be marked on the calendar as special for the events and satisfactions they bring with them. In July of that year, indeed, Luca – Luciano's brother – obtained his diploma as a wine technician at the historic Oenological School of Alba, namely the Istituto Tecnico Enologico Umberto I.
By 1981 that School had already reached a hundred years of life and activity and, in the history of Alba's and Italy's wine world, had always represented an important point of reference, especially for the work of orientating production towards quality that it had carried out over the years. There was an ever growing number of sons of winegrowers and wine producers from the hills of Langa and Roero who, thanks to the Oenological School, had strengthened and perfected their professional training and thus contributed to keeping up the qualitative level of the wines of this territory.
The fact that Luca had become one of them filled Luciano's spirit with pride and satisfaction.
But the positive results of 1987 did not stop there. On the horizon, other intriguing developments were appearing.
One fine day, in the heart of that year, Luciano – walking among the rows of a very small Nebbiolo vineyard, barely more than a thousand square metres
One fine day, in the heart of that year, Luciano – walking among the rows of a very small Nebbiolo vineyard, barely more than a thousand square metres
Towards the mid-1990s all the vineyards prepared with this type of vine entered production. Year after year, the grapes ripened and yielded more wine.
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