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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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No producer notes survive from the defunct Scanavino house. So this note draws on what drinkers consistently find in old bottles: leather, earth and mushroom first, then dried fruit and spice.
Dried rose and tar over leather, forest floor and mushroom, the earthy register that defines this label. The 1967 still shows a lively, fragrant bouquet, with a cinnamon and clove spice from the house's large-barrel ageing sitting underneath.
Rose petal
Cherry
Prune
Tobacco
Tar
Forest Floor
Leather
LiquoriceLight-to-medium bodied now, the rich extract resolving into dried cherry, prune and fig. Nebbiolo's acidity survives and keeps the wine upright. 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.
Long and dry, with liquorice and tobacco trailing off gently and a whisper of orange peel in old bottles.
A time-capsule Barolo from the defunct Priocca d'Alba negociant rather than a collector's trophy, and a solid bottle for its age. Buy it as a birth-year or anniversary gift to open on the day. Expect bottle variation and a fragile, fascinating old Nebbiolo rather than power.
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.
A birth-year Barolo in a silk-lined wooden box with a personalised card is purpose-built for 1967 birthdays and anniversaries.
Resolved tannin and intact acidity make it a genuine food wine for braises, truffle dishes and aged cheese. Its fragility bars anything punchy.
A fragile 59-year-old with sediment, a delicate cork and fully tertiary flavours is a wine for the curious, not a first Barolo.
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.
A £150 gift-boxed rarity from 1967 is the opposite of a weeknight bottle.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Barolo denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
1967 was a well-regarded, classically styled Barolo vintage, and still grades as 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.
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.
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.
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. That is why a 59-year-old workhorse bottling still reads unmistakably as Barolo.
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.
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.
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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. Beef, lamb and game are its natural company, which points the same way.
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 →
Leather, mushroom and forest floor dominate this wine's nose, 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 →
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. That lets a fragile 59-year-old Nebbiolo stay audible.
Try with: agnolotti del Plin · risotto alla Milanese · roast guinea fowl · More pairings →
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. The cheese's salt lifts what fruit remains.
Try with: cheese board · strong cheddar cheese · aged Parmigiano Reggiano
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 →
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.
Peak around 1982. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
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.
Drawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 3.8 out of 5 from 48 ratings on Vivino.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur 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 · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumOften 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. It bottled 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. Its bottles travelled widely, which is why so many still turn up.
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. Leather, earth and mushroom come first, 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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