Azienda Agricola Sukula — Riikka & Jyrki

A Finnish family at the heart of Barolo.

Riikka Sukula bought a two-hectare estate in 2005 in the Meriame cru of Serralunga d'Alba. Jyrki — known to most from Finnish kitchens and television — joined her in the vineyard a year later. They do everything themselves: pruning, harvest, bottling. Thousands of hours a year on the slope. About 4,500 bottles a year.

In the glass: Sukula's own Barolo Meriame and Barbera d'Alba. Plus the part that doesn't fit in a bottle — what life in Piedmont, and making wine from slope to bottle, actually feels like.