The Oddero family is one of the historic families of Barolo, making wine since at least the eighteenth century in the territory of La Morra (and very possibly for longer than that). Mariacristina Oddero now runs the business, alongside her grandchildren Isabella and Pietro, who are the seventh generation. Under Mariacristina’s stewardship – she took over in the late 1990s – Oddero has been on a significant upwards trajectory from a quality perspective, a trajectory Antonio Galloni calls “nothing short of remarkable.”
This wine is from a 1.13ha plot (plot 2; sub-plots 178, 407 and 406) in a single vineyard in Monforte d’Alba within Bussia, at 380m elevation. Mondoca, “sorì of the afternoon” (in Piemontese, sorì means “sunny vineyards”), has a south and southwest exposure and basks in the highest temperatures of all the vineyards in the Barolo area. Fermentation and maceration for approximately 30 days is followed by 36 months of maturation in 30hl oak. Production is circa 3,500 bottles a vintage.
