Chiara Boschis or the story of a prestigious wine estate
Here's a winemaker who speaks from the heart. Her profession was predestined, since Chiara Boschis was born into the world of wine. Her ancestors founded the prestigious Giacomo Borgogno wine estate in Barolo in 1761, and her family managed the winery until Borgogno was sold in 2008.
Before becoming a winemaker, Chiara studied in Turin, and after starting out in a consulting firm, she chose to follow her destiny to Barolo.
In 1980, the legendary owner of the E. Pira winery in Barolo died without an heir. Gigi's two sisters were close friends of the Boschis-Borgogno family, and asked them to help make the wines. In 1981, Chiara, still a student in Turin, convinced her parents to take out a mortgage to buy the E. Pira winery and vineyard. Pira winery and vineyard.
A few years passed, during which her family looked after production in Pira while she completed her studies and professional experience in Turin.
In 1990, after spending a few years discovering and tasting wines with the Barolo Boys, Chiara's determination was at its peak. She took over the destiny of the E. Pira winery, taking a bold and provocative path with green harvesting, shorter fermentations and the use of French barrels.
Chiara Boschis and her wine estate E. Pira & Figli estate now own eleven hectares of vines in the communes of Barolo, Serralunga and Montforte d'Alba. The first woman winemaker in the Langhe region, and although she comes from a family of "Barolisti", she had to overcome many obstacles in the 1990s to establish herself and gain recognition in order to be able to bear this title.
Chiara was the first wine estate with plots in the prestigious Cannubi terroir to convert to organic farming, but she didn't stop there. She has worked tirelessly in recent years to convince the rest of the producers to go organic!
Her wines are monuments of finesse and elegance, with magnificent substance. From Barbera d'Alba to Barolo Cannubi, each wine carries a terroir, an intensity, a richness, a soul.....the tasting speaks for itself, reflecting the grandeur of both grape variety and terroir with unusual complexity and depth.
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