Gianluca Battaglio

The Place Battaglio is the estate Gianluca Battaglio owns, makes wine for, and guards in Piedmont, Italy. His family has been making wine in the same area for generations, so the work is tied to continuity as much as to vintage: the same place, the same agricultural line, and the same close reading of grapes and cellar. The working names around him are precise. He is owner of Az. Agr. Bricco Grilli and enologist at Az. Battaglio, with his career centered on Battaglio winery. Those roles keep him close to both viticulture and oenology, from the growing season through the finished bottle.

The Method A certified oenologist, Battaglio works in viticulture and oenology rather than treating vineyard and cellar as separate worlds. His wines are handcrafted in microbatches, a scale that makes each bottling feel measured by hand rather than by volume. That method is clearest in Battaglio Barbaresco 2019: 980 bottles, handcrafted. The number is significant: it places the wine in a small-production frame, where the bottling itself becomes part of the identity of the work. His craft also sits within a family inheritance. Generations of winegrowing in the same area give the estate a local memory, while his formal oenological credential gives the work a technical spine.

The Range The range moves through Dolcetto Langhe, Barbera d’Alba and Barbaresco, with a broader focus on Barbaresco and Langhe wines. These are the named center of the estate’s work in Piedmont. Alongside the 2019 Barbaresco, one named bottling is Roero Arneis Piasì. Together, those wines show the scope of the cellar as it moves between the estate’s Barbaresco and Langhe focus and a named Roero Arneis expression. The through-line is scale: small lots, handcrafted bottles, and an owner-winemaker who remains responsible for the estate itself. At Battaglio, the work is less about distance from the land than contact with it, from viticulture to oenology to the final microbatch.