Aldo Conterno is one of Piedmont’s most noted producers of Barolo. The 25-acre estate is in Monforte d’Alba, in northwestern Italy, and was founded in 1969 when Aldo Conterno returned from a few years spent in California working in an uncle’s vineyard. Though the Conterno family had been in the wine business for more than a century, Aldo picked up new ideas about winemaking in California. Today the winery is run by his sons and produces 120,000 bottles of wine a year, virtually all Barolo. Aldo Conterno is credited with being one of the earliest Piedmont winemakers to start producing more elegant, age-worthy Barolos. Gambero Rosso, Italy’s leading wine journal, notes that the estate’s mix of traditional and more modern winemaking results in “great wines.”