Cantina del Pino has long been one of the benchmarks of Barbaresco, rooted in the Vacca family’s deep connection to the land. Renato Vacca was a force — passionate, uncompromising, and entirely devoted to Barbaresco. His wines always carried that signature clarity, a sense of place distilled into glass. For his Barbaresco bottling, he worked parcel by parcel — Ovello, Gallina, Albesani, Starderi — letting each ferment on its own before bringing them together in large casks. That patchwork of exposures and soils gave him the tools to shape a wine that was consistently poised, complex, and unmistakably his. The 2020 release captures that spirit beautifully: aromatic, layered, and balanced, with the kind of energy that makes it compelling today but equally rewarding with a few more years in the cellar.