7.8 The last steps towards stability

In 2017, the 2013 Barolo completed its mandatory period of maturation and refinement. This happened both for the Barolo Cannubi Boschis and for the Barolo Le Vigne. But in view of that deadline Luciano announced an important novelty, namely the desire to dedicate his Cannubi Boschis to the young generation of the family. At the basis of this choice, which should not be seen as a renunciation of the specific Geographical Mention, there were two factors: from one side the total belonging of that vineyard to Luciano's personal history and from the other the deep bond of Luciano with those two grandchildren, Alessia and Stefano, who for him represented the continuity of his family with the world of Barolo.
Thus, from the 2013 vintage, the Barolo Cannubi Boschis changed its name and became "ALESTE". Luciano explained it in detail at the moment when this change was happening: "I decided so because only with this choice do I believe I pay full tribute to the richness and elegance of the wine drawn from this vineyard which I consider 'unique'. My family is deeply linked to the historic hill of Cannubi and, in particular, to this Cannubi Boschis vineyard, the first I purchased. In this territory and in this vineyard we grew up and we are proud to be part of it. It is for us a great privilege to be able to cultivate this vineyard that every day we see with our own eyes directly from the company. The respect for this vineyard we want to make felt and expressed in the wine. Thus was born a Barolo by now recognized, towards which I have dedicated, harvest after harvest, great attention. None of this will change and it is for this that I made a courageous and sensitive choice for the future: I dedicate my 'wine of the heart' to my grandchildren Alessia and Stefano. From now on, the wine will bear their names enclosed in its denomination. ALESTE is indeed the union of the initial parts of their first names".
The rest is recent history, passed through other moments of daily activity or facts that are worth remembering, like the celebration of the forty years of the company, celebrated in 2018 or the story of another project, born almost by chance but equally fascinating, which gave life to the Barolo Vite Talin which you can read in a specific chapter.
The 2020s had begun for little more than two turns of the calendar when Luciano, on January 5, 2023, decided that his journey on these wine hills could be considered concluded. He preferred to go elsewhere, beyond the sky, beyond those clouds that give, depending on the seasons, the sun or the rain or the snow. He knew that beyond those clouds other hills, other vineyards, other projects and other bets awaited him.
His memory and his way of being remained here to emphasize to us every day everything that in life Luciano was able to realize and to remember that among these rows, in these cellars, among these houses between 1946 and 2023 he walked and discovered since he was a child that the Nebbiolo vine was the plant he would always cultivate and Barolo the wine he would always love.