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Ceretto

Ceretto is one of Piedmont's most commercially prominent family estates, based in Alba and farming vineyards across both Barolo and Barbaresco. The Ceretto brothers Bruno and Marcello built the estate through the 1970s and 1980s, acquiring landmark parcels including Asili and Faset in Barbaresco and Brunate and Rocche dell'Annunziata in Barolo. The Barbaresco Asili leads the auction record with 41 lots averaging $139 per bottle and the 1999 vintage most traded — a benchmark year for the cru. The Barbaresco Faset averages $97 across 11 lots with the 1990 vintage among the highest-value bottles. The Barolo Zonchera averages $128 across 22 lots with the 1985 vintage representing the collectible early era of Ceretto's production. Auction prices range from $31 to $836. Ceretto's Bricco Rocche single-vineyard Barolo (Brunate, Prà, Rocche) — if present in the data as 'Ceretto Barolo' — carries the highest prestige. The estate modernized in the late 1980s under consulting oenologist Marcello Ceretto, introducing shorter maceration and more French oak, a shift that polarized traditionalists but broadened the wines' critical appeal through the 1990s.

Barbaresco Asili, from one of the most prestigious crus in the appellation, leads the estate's auction activity at $139 average per bottle, with the 1999 vintage the most traded.
The Barolo Zonchera and Asij cuvées trace their auction record to the 1985 vintage, one of Piedmont's landmark years, when Ceretto's traditional-era wines were at their most collectible.
Ceretto shifted to shorter maceration and French oak in the late 1980s — a modernizing move that improved critical scores but divided the estate's collector base.
Auction prices span $31 to $836, with the upper range driven by early-vintage Barolo and Barbaresco Asili from the 1980s and 1990s.

Auction Lots

524

Avg Price / Bottle

$125

Top Vintage

1997

Price Range

$5 – $1.2k

In the Glass

Ceretto's Barbaresco and Barolo wines express Nebbiolo's classic signature: dried rose petal, tar, leather, and cherry on a firm tannic frame with vivid acidity. Asili delivers floral Barbaresco finesse; Zonchera shows more grip and iron. Post-1988 vintages are more approachable in youth with silkier tannins; older traditional-era bottles reward 15-plus years in the cellar.

Portfolio

WineColourAvg PriceLots SoldTop Vintage
Ceretto, Barolo, Bricco RoccheRed$1341571997
Ceretto, Barolo, BrunateRed$155741997
Ceretto, Barbaresco, AsiliRed$129742004
Ceretto, Barolo, PrapoRed$107721997
Ceretto, BaroloRed$76302010
ZoncheraRed$113281985
Zonchetta BrunateRed$94211969
AsijRed$91191985
Ceretto, Barbaresco, MonteficoRed$203131971
Ceretto, Barbaresco, FasetRed$89131990
Ceretto, BarbarescoRed$176101990
Arneis BlangeWhite$872012
PittatoreRed$12261971

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