Paitin is one of the oldest wineries in Piedmont, which is still owned by the same family as it was back in 1893, when the ancestors of the current owners Giovanni and Silvano Pasquero Elia bottled the first bottles and even initiated overseas exports. The oldest Nebbiolo plants* planted in 1953 are not that old, but quite unusual for vines. Giovanni and Silvano obtain the Vecchie Vigne selection from this plot, which is only bottled in the best vintages. Like all red wines from this winery, the Vecchie Vigne is neither filtered nor brightened, but instead of the prescribed 12 months (Barbaresco law), it remains in large oak barrels for careful and slow maturation. The wine shows a stately fullness, complex nose with nuanced aromas and a juicy, soft body, whose tannins are well embedded. Giovanni and Silvano Pasquero Elia have been practicing organic viticulture for many years, but without declaring this. They consider the formalities for declaration to be far too large for a small winegrowing company that produces only 60,000 bottles. For more and more winegrowers, the careful and careful treatment of nature is a matter of course, which is in their very own interest, because they are most interested in leaving their descendants healthy land in ecological balance. At that time, the Nebbiolo vines were propagated according to the old system, in that the winemaker cut the laps of the best canes and brought them to the vine scholar for refinement. Today, this would no longer be permitted according to EU standards, which only provides for certain clones for propagation and the so-called Selezione Massale is prohibited. It is one of the many laws that unfortunately increasingly lead to standardization and uniformity (not only in the food sector!) leads. In the “Vecchie Vigne”, the morphological differences between the individual plants can be detected, perhaps also in the bouquet of the wine, in its extraordinary aromatic diversity.