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Giovanni Scanavino Barolo

A 1967 birth-year Barolo from Giovanni Scanavino, the once-vast Priocca d'Alba negociant house. Expect fully tertiary Nebbiolo: dried rose, tar, leather and prune. Ships in a wooden gift box with a personalised card, ready-made for an anniversary.

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Tasting Notes

Tasting the 1967 Scanavino Barolo, six decades on

No producer notes survive from the defunct Scanavino house, so this note leans on drinker consensus: 48 Vivino ratings on the 1967 itself and a 310-review taste profile led by leather, earth and mushroom, cross-checked against the retailer's cellar note.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
21 July 2026
Vintage in glass
1967
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Taste profile
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Dried rose and tar over leather, forest floor and mushroom, the earthy register Vivino drinkers cite most for this label (91 mentions across 310 reviews). Vintage Wine Gifts' cellar note still finds a lively, fragrant bouquet in the 1967, with a cinnamon and clove spice from the house's large-barrel ageing sitting underneath.

Rose petalRose petal
CherryCherry
PrunePrune
TobaccoTobacco
TarTar
Forest FloorForest Floor
LeatherLeather
LiquoriceLiquorice
Palate

Light-to-medium bodied now, the rich extract the retailer notes resolving into dried cherry, prune and fig. Nebbiolo's acidity survives and keeps the wine upright, while six decades have softened the tannin to the fine, slightly crumbly grain old Scanavino bottlings are known for. Sound bottles hold a gentle dried-fruit sweetness through the middle.

Finish

Long and dry, as the retailer's own note promises, with liquorice and tobacco trailing off gently; Vivino tasters also log a whisper of orange peel in old bottles.

Overall

A time-capsule Barolo from the defunct Priocca d'Alba negociant rather than a collector's trophy: the 1967 rates 3.8/5 across 48 Vivino reviews, solid for its age. Buy it as a birth-year or anniversary gift to open on the day, expecting bottle variation and a fragile, fascinating old Nebbiolo rather than power.

Drink now Best by 2027
Live UK pricing

Buying the 1967 Barolo as a birth-year gift

One UK listing is live: Vintage Wine Gifts at £149.97, shipped in a silk-lined wooden presentation box with a personalised gift card. Sibling Scanavino vintages sell through Hedonism and other old-wine specialists, so the 1967 sits at the accessible end of the birth-year Barolo market.

Best price · 75 cl £149.97 at Vintage Wine Gifts
Price spread £149.97 Across 1 UK retailer tracked
Retailers tracked 1UK 1 in stock
Vintages live 1967 Current release: 1967
Per-litre (75 cl basis) £199.96 Per-litre price for the lowest current offer
Last checked 20 Jul 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

Where the 1967 Scanavino Barolo fits

Scored as what it is: a fragile, characterful birth-year bottle. Occasion use towers over everything else; its cellaring days ended around the 1982 peak, and at £149.97 it is nobody's everyday red.

Best for an occasion 9.3/10

A birth-year Barolo in a silk-lined wooden box with a personalised card is purpose-built for 1967 birthdays and anniversaries.

Best with food 7.8/10

Resolved tannin and intact acidity make it a genuine food wine for braises, truffle dishes and aged cheese, though its fragility bars anything punchy.

Best value 3.5/10

£149.97 buys provenance and gift packaging: Cambi auctioned fifteen unboxed 1968 bottles on a 100-150 euro estimate in 2021, and a sibling 1973 lists at 99 euros in Italy.

Best intro to this style 2.5/10

A fragile 59-year-old with sediment, a delicate cork and fully tertiary flavours is a wine for the curious, not a first Barolo.

Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Barolo in five fields

A compact view of what the Barolo denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
1 varieties listed
This bottle: Nebbiolo.
Minimum ageing
38 months minimum
Of which 18 months in oak.
Region / area
Cuneo, Langhe: Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d'Alba, La Morra, Monforte d'Alba, Novello, Verduno, Grinzane Cavour, Diano d'Alba, Cherasco, Roddi
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
DOCG · Barolo
Minimum ABV at this colour: 13.0%.
Classification
DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita)
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£149.97
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Vintages

1967 in Barolo: a good year, long past its peak

1967 was a well-regarded, classically styled Barolo vintage, and the retailer still grades it very good. This bottle's drinking window opened in 1975 and peaked around 1982; today it is a drink-on-opening wine, and condition varies bottle by bottle.

1967 Current release
Lowest price
£149.97
Retailers
1 in stock
Window
Drink now through 2027

A well-regarded, classically styled Barolo year whose wines lean lighter yet keep fruit and elegance. Six decades on it drinks as gentle, leafy old Nebbiolo, best opened for the occasion, not the cellar.

Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

Barolo DOC in 1967: Scanavino under the new rules

This wine was bottled in the earliest years of Barolo DOC, granted in 1966 and raised to DOCG in 1980. The rules bound even a volume negociant like Scanavino to pure Nebbiolo from the delimited zone, which is why a 59-year-old workhorse bottling still reads unmistakably as Barolo.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.

Barolo is in the DOCG tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. 1 varieties listed in the disciplinare
  • Yield ceiling. 8.0 tonnes per hectare
  • Minimum ABV. 13.0% vol
  • Minimum ageing. 38 months total (of which 18 in oak)
  • Tasting panel. Mandatory pre-release tasting commission
03

Region and area context

Barolo falls within Piedmont , covering Cuneo, Langhe: Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d'Alba, La Morra, Monforte d'Alba, Novello, Verduno, Grinzane Cavour, Diano d'Alba, Cherasco, Roddi. The denomination is further divided into 11 sub-zones.

04

Reading the label

  • NebbioloGrape varieties (in declared order of dominance)
  • Barolo DOCGGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 1967Vintage (year of harvest)
  • Producer-declared ABV · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of Giovanni Scanavino Barolo

Tracked from
£149.97
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 1 down
Main factor
Survival scarcity of intact 1967 stock
  1. 01

    Survival scarcity of intact 1967 stock

    Cost up

    Only bottles that dodged 59 years of drinking, poor storage and cork failure remain sellable; stock of a defunct house's 1967 cannot be replenished.

  2. 02

    Negociant-scale production economics

    Cost down

    Scanavino bottled Barolo industrially at Priocca d'Alba (31 labels, 14,815 Vivino ratings), so raw bottles are not rare: Cambi sold 15 of the 1968 on a 100-150 euro estimate in 2021.

  3. 03

    Gift presentation included in the price

    Cost up

    The £149.97 includes a silk-lined wooden presentation box, four accessories and a personalised gift card, packaging a bare auction bottle cannot match.

  4. 04

    Provenance checking by a specialist

    Cost up

    Vintage Wine Gifts stores, grades and guarantees old bottles, replacing corked wine within a year; that curation is priced in against a 99-euro Italian shop listing of the sibling 1973.

  5. 05

    UK duty and VAT at £149.97

    Cost up

    £2.67 of still-wine duty plus £25.00 of VAT sit inside the £149.97 price before the bottle itself costs a penny.

01

Survival scarcity of intact 1967 stock

Cost up

Only bottles that dodged 59 years of drinking, poor storage and cork failure remain sellable; stock of a defunct house's 1967 cannot be replenished.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that complement this wine

Food Pairing

What to eat with a fully tertiary 1967 Barolo

The fruit is dried, the tannin resolved and the acidity intact, so the classic matches are slow-cooked Piedmont dishes: brasato al Barolo, tajarin al tartufo, porcini risotto. Vivino's crowd files this wine under beef, lamb and game, which points the same way.

Tannin softening Strong match

Braised beef for resolved old tannin

Sixty years have softened this Barolo's tannin to a fine, crumbly grain, but the structure that remains still knits into slow-braised, collagen-rich meat. Brasato al Barolo is the textbook Piedmont match: the braise echoes the wine's dried-cherry and tar notes without bullying them.

Try with: brasato al Barolo · ossobuco alla Milanese · venison stew · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Strong match

Truffle and porcini bridge the forest-floor nose

Leather, mushroom and forest floor dominate this wine's Vivino taste profile, and white truffle and porcini share exactly those earthy aromatics. Tajarin al Tartufo or a porcini risotto meet the 1967 on its own autumnal ground, no fresh fruit required.

Try with: tajarin al tartufo · porcini mushroom risotto · truffle risotto · More pairings →

Body matching Good match

Delicate old frame, gently savoury plates

This is a light-to-medium-bodied wine now, so it needs dishes that whisper rather than shout. Butter-and-sage agnolotti del plin or a saffron risotto alla Milanese sit at the same weight, letting a fragile 59-year-old Nebbiolo stay audible.

Try with: agnolotti del Plin · risotto alla Milanese · roast guinea fowl · More pairings →

Fat cutting Good match

Acidity intact against aged cheese

Nebbiolo's acidity is the last thing to fade, and in this 1967 it still cuts cleanly through the fat of hard aged cheeses. Mature Castelmagno or Parmigiano Reggiano flatters the wine's dried-fig sweetness while the cheese's salt lifts what fruit remains.

Try with: cheese board · strong cheddar cheese · aged Parmigiano Reggiano

Avoid Clash

Keep chilli heat away from a 59-year-old

Capsaicin amplifies alcohol and bitterness while flattening delicate aromatics, and delicate is all a 1967 negociant Barolo has left. Hot chilli or Szechuan-pepper dishes would erase the dried rose and tar entirely; save this bottle for quiet, savoury food.

Skip with: crispy chilli beef · Szechuan beef · vindaloo · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Collector reality: negociant Barolo at auction

Unboxed Scanavino bottles trade cheaply in bulk: Cambi auctioned a 15-bottle lot of the 1968 on a 100-150 euro estimate in 2021. Scarcity of intact, well-stored single bottles, not brand prestige, is what supports the retail price of this 1967.

Drinking window
1975 → 2027

Peak around 1982. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

Decanting
h1

A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.

Cellar potential
Low

The window opened in 1975 and peaked around 1982; by the site's own reckoning it runs out by 2027, so storage from here only subtracts.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£149.97 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this 1967 Scanavino page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 20 Jul 2026, 05:46 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.

Confidence · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.

Confidence · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Scanavino, Barolo DOCG and Nebbiolo connections

Common Questions

Often yes, though at this age every bottle is its own story: fill level, cork and storage now matter more than the vintage did. 1967 was a good, classically styled Barolo year, and well-kept examples still show gentle dried-cherry fruit with tar and rose. Treat it as a wine at or past its peak and open it for the occasion rather than cellaring it further.

Giovanni Scanavino ran a high-volume negociant house at Priocca d'Alba in Piedmont, bottling Barolo, Barbaresco and Barbera on an industrial scale through the 1960s and 1970s under labels including Poderi Giovanni Scanavino and Cantine Scanavino. The firm is long defunct, so its wines survive only through auctions and old-vintage specialists. The label still carries more than 14,000 Vivino ratings across 31 wines, a mark of how widely these bottles travelled.

Stand the bottle upright for a day or two so the sediment settles, pull the fragile cork slowly, and pour carefully rather than giving it a vigorous decant. Serve at around 16-18C and drink it within a few hours of opening; after six decades the aromatics fade fast once air gets in.

It is built for exactly that. Vintage Wine Gifts ships it in a silk-lined wooden presentation box with a personalised gift card, so a genuine Barolo from the recipient's year arrives ready to give. For a 1967 birthday or anniversary it is a more original present than any current release.

Fully tertiary Nebbiolo. Vivino drinkers most often report leather, earth and mushroom, followed by tobacco, clove, dried fig and prune, with the cherry fruit now dried rather than fresh. The palate is light on its feet, held together by Nebbiolo's acidity, with tannins softened to a fine, slightly crumbly grain.

Vintage Wine Gifts lists this bottle at £149.97 including the wooden gift box and personalised card, and it is in stock at the time of writing. Unboxed Scanavino bottles trade far lower at Italian auction, a 15-bottle 1968 lot sold at Cambi on a 100-150 euro estimate, so the price buys checked provenance and gift presentation as much as the liquid.

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