The Produttori del Barbaresco is a cooperative with a difference: it’s more of a members’ club, made up of fifty or so growers.  Membership of the Produttori is by invitation only.  Andrew Jefford describes it as “one of the world’s greatest wine cooperatives”.

The wines are invariably brilliant from top to bottom, and the outstanding buy is what you might call their “regular” Barbaresco, a wine made from a selection of vineyards throughout the region, from all 54 of the growers.