Who We Are
Our wines speak for us, about our land, our work, our past and today, our future Romano Dogliotti is a straightforward, tenacious man with an iron will, a great worker of his land, a vigilant guardian of his vineyards and a precise supervisor of the entire processing cycle of his wines. Select a wine and open the card complete with description, technical notes on the wine and vineyard, origins and processing. The labels of our bottles are illustrated with works by the artists Alessandro Lupano, Paolo Spinoglio and Romano Levi.
Our History
The history of the Caudrina winery began in the distant 1940s in Piedmont, in the municipality of Castiglione Tinella in the province of Cuneo, between the Langhe and Monferrato Astigiano, in an area that has always been considered one of the best for the production of Moscato grapes.
It was Redento Dogliotti who set up an initial business, beginning to press the grapes from his own vineyards to obtain must that he sold to the large Moscato D'Asti producing industry.
He took a quantum leap at the end of the 1970s, when his son Romano Dogliotti joined the company. From his best vineyards, Romano began to invent his Moscato, to bottle it and sell it to those private individuals who rediscovered in that wine the flavours of childhood, of Sunday sweets, of festivities, of conviviality. Thus was born Moscato d'Asti La Caudrina, a wine with many peculiarities: sweet but also pleasantly acidulous, with a delicately floral bouquet. LA CAUDRINA was and is an essential wine, clean, simple as it should be; word of mouth and its ever more frequent presence in restaurants and wine shops decreed its fame.
On the wave of this pre-eminent success, Romano, from another cru, began the production of his second wine, the now historic Moscato d'Asti La Galeisa, which became a new source of pride with the 1989 harvest. A Moscato with a persistent, intense aroma and full-bodied flavour.
These were joined in 1993 by La Selvatica, a moderately sweet Asti spumante with a persistent perlage and a complex, aromatic, unmistakable bouquet, bearing the label donated by the legendary grappa maker Romano Levi.
Dad Redento, who had followed his son Romano's steps with interest and understood and shared his determination, passed the baton on to him in 1997 after another good harvest.
From that moment on, Romano Dogliotti began a new journey, flanked by a close-knit and serene family team made up of his sons Alessandro, a lively wine technician, Sergio and Marco, in the vineyard and in production two forces of nature in constant movement, and his wife Bruna, who has always collaborated in the management of the company.
Romano bought a Barbera vineyard in Nizza Monferrato. A part of the production from this vineyard, vinified in the traditional way, is bottled young without ageing in wood. This is the Barbera d'Asti La Solista, a wine with a ruby red colour, a fruity and captivating bouquet in which plum and morello cherry are perceived, soft and persistent on the palate.
May 2000 saw the birth of Barbera d'Asti Superiore 1998 Montevenere, aged for nine months in barriques. It is a wine with an intense ruby red colour, the bouquet is broad with a pleasant boisè extremely complex (coffee, cocoa and vanilla). As the old premises are now inadequate, the new cellar will soon be completed, where the most advanced technology will be used to create a warm, welcoming environment in line with tradition and with respect for the territory.
Romano Dogliotti, today the sole owner of the company, is a straightforward, tenacious man with an iron will, a great worker of his land, a vigilant guardian of his vineyards and a precise supervisor of the entire processing cycle of his wines.
Stubborn like most of the winemakers in the Langhe, Romano remains tied to tradition but with a decided openness to new technologies (with which he wanted to equip his new cellar) and to the ever-changing needs of the market and of an increasingly attentive and well-documented clientele.
His wines, today all DOC, are the expression of a long experience but also of a remarkable vivacity and evolutionary capacity.