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Azienda Agricola Villadoria
A 1958 Barolo under the Lanzavecchia family's early Marchese Villadoria label: fully mature Serralunga Nebbiolo of dried rose, tar, leather and raisined fruit. A birth-year gift from an exceptional vintage, shipped in a wooden box.
Bottled under the Lanzavecchia family's early Marchese Villadoria label, the 1958 is fully tertiary Serralunga Nebbiolo. Vivino drinkers log leather, wax, liquorice, fig and raisin on this label; the house's own Barolo still rests around 18 months in Slavonian oak.
Give it air softly and the age shows first: dried rose, tar and forest floor, the over-blown rose the Lanzavecchia house still cites on its Serralunga Barolo turned to potpourri by sixty-eight years. Drinkers logging the old Marchese Villadoria label on Vivino lean on leather and wax, with tobacco and a curl of orange peel at the rim.
Rose petal
Cherry
Fig
Raisin
Tobacco
Tar
Forest Floor
Leather
Liquorice1958 was one of Piedmont's finest post-war vintages and the material lasts: fig, raisin and cherries in alcohol over a frame CellarTracker tasters describe as meat, tar and soot. Tannin from the house's long macerations and Slavonian oak ageing has crumbled to a fine, dusty grip, and the stated 13.5% keeps it compact. The crisp line the retailer's datasheet flags still carries the fruit.
Liquorice and dried-leaf length with the sweet, raisiny echo CellarTracker notes praise; it tapers gently rather than snapping shut.
A fully mature, bottle-variable Barolo rating 4.1 on Vivino across the label's old bottlings: buy it as a 1958 birth-year gift to open at the table, gently decanted, not as a cellar asset.
One UK listing is live: Vintage Wine Gifts holds the 1958 at £339.97, in stock, shipped in a silk-lined wooden presentation box with four accessories and a personalised gift card plus tasting and storage notes. Continental merchants have largely sold through; Antikwein's last bottle went at 217 euro.
Occasion strength is the headline: a birth-year Barolo from an exceptional vintage, boxed for gifting. Cellar and everyday scores sit low by design; at £339.97 and sixty-eight years old this is a bottle to open at the party, not one to lay down further.
A birth-year Barolo from an exceptional vintage, delivered in a silk-lined wooden box with a personalised card: purpose-built for a 68th birthday or a 1958 anniversary.
Living acidity and resolved tannin suit brasato al Barolo, truffle tajarin and fonduta, though sixty-eight-year fragility keeps it off anything spicy, charred or raw.
£339.97 buys presentation, provenance and immediate stock rather than raw wine value; Antikwein's continental price for the same 1958 was 217 euro before it sold through.
A fully tertiary 1958 with sediment, crumbly corks and bottle variation asks for old-wine experience; anyone expecting fruit will find tar, leather and fig.
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.
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Vintage Wine Gifts
1958 stands among Piedmont's finest post-war years, prized for perfumed, elegant Barolo. This bottling carries a stated 13.5% and the authored window runs to 2028 on well-kept bottles; the retailer's datasheet stretches to 2034. Peak passed decades ago, so drink on arrival, gently decanted.
1958 stands among Piedmont's finest post-war vintages, prized for perfumed, exceptionally elegant Barolo. Well-kept bottles can still show real grace, now fully mature and autumnal in character.
1958 stands among Piedmont's finest post-war vintages, prized for perfumed, exceptionally elegant Barolo. Well-kept bottles can still show real grace, now fully mature and autumnal in character.
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 1958 was sold simply as Barolo: the DOC arrived in 1966 and DOCG status in 1980. Today the appellation caps yields at 8 tonnes per hectare and requires a release tasting; Villadoria's fruit comes from Serralunga d'Alba, inside the same zone the rules now govern.
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.
Sixty-eight years after harvest almost none remains on sale: Antikwein's Italian storefront shows its last 1958 Barolo Marchesi di Villadoria sold through at 217 euro, and Milanese auctions bundle singles into mixed lots.
1958 ranks among Piedmont's finest post-war vintages, prized for perfumed, elegant Barolo; strong years of that era carry a clear premium over neighbouring vintages on the old-wine market.
The £339.97 listing ships in a silk-lined wooden presentation box with corkscrew, pourer, drip stopper and thermometer, plus a personalised card and storage notes; careful handling of a fragile old bottle sits in the price.
Marchese Villadoria was a merchant-scale label in the 1960s, so the 1958 lacks single-estate scarcity; comparable estate-bottled Serralunga Barolo of the era trades far higher at auction.
£2.67 still-wine duty plus VAT: at £339.97 about £59 of the shelf price is UK tax before the wine itself is valued.
Dishes that complement this wine
Sixty-eight years have softened the structure CellarTracker tasters still call ample into leather and liquorice. It wants Piedmont's autumn table: brasato al Barolo, tajarin al tartufo, porcini risotto and Fonduta, and nothing chilli-hot or delicately raw.
What tannin survives sixty-eight years of bottle age is fine and dusty, and slow-braised beef coats it in gelatine while echoing the wine's tar and leather register. The dish was built around Nebbiolo in Piedmont for exactly this reason.
Try with: brasato al Barolo · beef cheek braised in red wine · oxtail stew · More pairings →
Villadoria's own tasting sheet lists truffle and undergrowth among its Barolo aromas, and Vivino's top note cluster for the old label is earthy leather and wax. White truffle tajarin and porcini risotto meet the wine on that exact register.
Try with: tajarin al tartufo · porcini mushroom risotto · truffle risotto · More pairings →
The crisp acidity the retailer's datasheet flags is the last structural muscle this 1958 has, and it cuts fontina fonduta and thirty-month Parmigiano cleanly. Salty crystals in aged cheese also lift the wine's fig and raisin sweetness.
Try with: fonduta · aged Parmigiano Reggiano · Castelmagno · More pairings →
At a stated 13.5% with fully resolved structure, the 1958 sits at medium weight and bruises under heavy char or raw smoke. Butter-sage agnolotti del plin, ossobuco and a quiet Sunday roast match its weight without shouting over it.
Try with: agnolotti del plin · ossobuco alla Milanese · Sunday roast beef · More pairings →
Capsaicin amplifies alcohol and what tannin remains while flattening the dried-rose and orange-peel aromatics that make a sixty-eight-year-old Barolo worth opening. Delicate raw fish goes the other way and is simply erased.
Skip with: crispy chilli beef · Szechuan beef · sea bass crudo · Pairing guide →
European shelves are close to empty: Antikwein's Italian storefront shows its last 1958 Barolo Marchesi di Villadoria sold through at 217 euro, and Milanese auction houses now bundle single bottles into mixed Barolo lots. The UK gift listing is the practical route to one bottle.
Peak around 1978. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
The authored peak passed in 1978 and the window closes around 2028; this is a drink-on-arrival bottle, with the retailer's 2034 note the outer optimistic edge.
£339.97 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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 · HighDrawn 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 · 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 · MediumWell-kept bottles are still alive: 1958 ranks among Piedmont's finest post-war vintages and this Barolo was built on long maceration and Slavonian oak. Expect a fully tertiary wine of dried rose, tar, leather and fig rather than fruit. After sixty-eight years bottle variation is real, so condition and fill level matter more than the label.
Stand the bottle upright for a day or two so the sediment settles, then pour gently, either straight from the bottle or through a brief decant to leave the deposit behind. Serve at 16 to 18 degrees, the range Italian merchants list for this wine, and drink it within hours of opening; a wine this old fades fast with air. Old corks can crumble, so a two-pronged cork puller is a wise backup.
Fully mature Nebbiolo: dried rose, tar and forest floor on the nose, then fig, raisin and cherries in alcohol over softened tannin. Drinkers logging the old Marchese Villadoria label on Vivino lean on leather, liquorice and wax, while CellarTracker notes on the 1958 riserva praise its meaty, tarry depth and surviving structure. The retailer's datasheet still calls it sweet, rich, crisp and very tannic.
The label belongs to the Lanzavecchia family, whose Villadoria house was founded by Pietro Lanzavecchia in Serralunga d'Alba at the very end of the 1950s. The 1958 was sold under the Marchese Villadoria branding of that era, a merchant-scale bottling that helped the house build markets in Britain and North America. The same family, now in its fourth generation, farms Serralunga vineyards today.
Vintage Wine Gifts holds it at £339.97 with immediate UK delivery, shipped in a silk-lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories and a personalised gift card. Continental stock has largely sold through; Antikwein's Italian storefront lists its last bottle as no longer available. At this age buy from a merchant that documents storage and condition.
Yes, with the right expectations: 1958 was an exceptional Barolo vintage, so the year reads well on a label and the wine can still be drunk rather than just displayed. The UK listing arrives gift-boxed with a personalised card plus tasting and storage notes. Frame it as a bottle to open at the celebration, gently decanted, rather than one to cellar further.
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