Winemaker
Roberto Gerbino
- Discipline
- Winemaker
Portrait of Roberto Gerbino
i. Biography
Piedmontese winemaking asks for repetition done well: vineyard work, cellar timing, and decisions made with a steady hand. Roberto Gerbino has worked inside that discipline since 1996, when he became winemaker of Monti, a role that places him on the front line of the estate’s style from vintage to vintage. As oenologist of Monti sarl, he also carries the technical side of that work, bringing interpretive control to the move from fruit to finished wine. Before Monti became the central line in his career, the cellar discipline at Le Fracce formed part of the same professional framework. Roberto Gerbino served there as oenologist from 1999, adding another fixed point in a career built on continuity rather than turnover. The shape of that path is plain: close attention to raw material, methodical choices in the cellar, and the experience that accumulates through long service rather than one-off statements.
Where They Are Now
At Monti, Roberto Gerbino remains responsible for the wines as winemaker, a position he has held since 1996. That kind of duration matters in the trade: it means deep familiarity with the estate’s rhythm, the seasonal pressures that repeat, and the small adjustments that keep a house style coherent. His work there is about maintaining definition, not chasing effects.
Career - winemaker, Monti (1996–present) - Oenologist, Monti sarl - Oenologist, Le Fracce (from 1999)
Signature
Roberto’s signature wines include Barbera d'Alba, Barolo, Bussia, Bricco San Pietro, and Dossi Rossi. The range points to a Piedmont-based cellar language built around structure and control, with Barbera d'Alba and Barolo setting the frame and Bussia, Bricco San Pietro, and Dossi Rossi extending it. Read together, the names suggest a producer working across familiar territory with a consistent hand rather than a broad but unfocused spread. The common thread in Roberto Gerbino’s work is duration. Since 1996 at Monti, and with earlier experience as oenologist at Le Fracce from 1999, his career has been shaped by sustained responsibility in the cellar. The wines are presented less as isolated trophies than as the practical result of that continuity: careful decisions, repeated over time, in service of a stable house style.
FAQ What is Roberto Gerbino's current role? Roberto Gerbino is Winemaker. Where did Roberto Gerbino work before? Roberto Gerbino's earlier career included Le Fracce.
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