This was a line-up of the top producers of Piedmonte, the boutique wineries that produce tiny quantities of hand-crafted wines from 4 producers, each of whom have top Cru sites in Barolo and who each earn every year, the most coveted Italian wine award, the Tre-Bicchieri or Three-Glass award in the annual compendium of Italian wine, Vini d'Italia. They include Elio Altare, Matteo Correggia, Domenico Clerico and Paolo Scavino.

Presenting the wines was Domenico di Luccio a son of the soil; his father is one of the tiny, boutique winemakers in Barolo. Domenico, however, works for Marc d'Grazia, the most influential-by-far negotiant from Barolo; whose owner, Marco d'Grazia was listed by Robert Parker amongst a list of 31 visionary figures of the wine world, a list that includes Robert Mondavi, Christian Mouiex, Antinori, Gaja, amongst others.