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Nebbiolo Langhe is made from the same grape as the famous wines Barolo and Barbaresco, the nebbiolo. Nebbiolo gives wines such as these a distinguished and grand character, but slightly lighter in structure than the large wines themselves. They are the product of the strict selection for the top wines, supplemented with grapes from outside the Barolo and Barbaresco. A perfect mix for a wine that has character, but is also flexible enough to enjoy young. The grapes are harvested a few days earlier than those for the Barolo and Barbaresco. The fermentation on the skins takes around 12 to 13 days. That produces a wine that is a lighter version of the great wines, but that still has a clear personality, with the same character of the nebbiolo, but then in a more accessible form, somewhat easier to approach. Delicious wine with a lot of finesse.

The Nebbiolo from Pio Cesare is wonderfully smoky and spicy in the scent, with a hint of cherry fruit, flowers, vanilla, laurel, earthy, a gentle commitment, yet powerful, a real personality, nice dry, cherries, vanilla, cream, good tannins and fresh acids. Great with characterful main courses, meat-based, with salads, cold starters, lightly matured cheeses.

The house Pio Cesare is one of the classic producers of the region. Located in Alba, the 'wine capital' of this region, and founded in 1881 by Cesare Pio. His name has been preserved in reverse order as the name of this trading house and family business. It is still in family hands, because it is headed by Pio Boffa, the great-grandson of the founder. He continues the work of the family in an excellent way, and is now also responsible for a number of modernizations and changes at this beautiful, traditional company. Pio Cesare, for example, has always been a trading house that bought the grapes under contract from winemakers from the region. That is also a common practice in this region, which has many small winemakers with small pieces of vineyard, who are always willing to sell their grapes to one of the trading houses. In that respect the region looks a bit like Burgundy, with all those different vineyards, each with its own name, subdivided into small pieces of vineyard, all owned by a different winegrower.

Pio Boffa has decided that for the quality of the wines it is a good thing to own vineyards. Over the years, he has purchased a number of vineyards, especially in the famous areas of Barolo and Barbaresco. The vineyard possession now covers 45 hectares, and produces a few of the most beautiful wines of the house, with a few separate vineyard cuvées as top toppers. These are only marketed in the good years.

The necessary changes have also been made to wine making. A very reserved vinification has been chosen, whereby the wine is left as much as possible in peace, so with as few interventions as possible. Each wine receives the individual treatment that best suits that particular wine, with a shorter or longer fermentation on the skins, whether or not followed by a traditional maturation on Slavonian oak, the traditional wood of the region. It produces wines with a classic finesse, balanced and complex, worthy representatives of this special wine region.