100% Muscat à Petits Grains. Canelli is the historic cradle of Moscato d'Asti production and Bera lies in the heart of Canelli. The Bera family was the first to estate-bottle Moscato d'Asti, starting in 1964. As of recently, the highest classification for this overcommercialized category of wine is...

2019 was the debut of Barolo Perno, from the Santo Stefano di Perno sub-section, facing east, with Arenarie di Diano d'Alba sandstones, more sandy than Schiavenza's Serralunga plots. This makes for a somewhat more lithe Barolo. A rare chance to taste a Barolo at 13.5% without losing typicity!

100% Grignolino. From estate parcels scattered about the steep hills of the Monferrato zone of Asti around the Verruàs' home village of Scurzolengo. The family farms organically, tending and harvesting the vines entirely by hand. The grapes are destemmed with berries kept whole and gently pressed...

100% Grignolino. From the same grapes as Marcaleone, but selected to carry out a vinification aimed at a long refinement (two years in stainless steel, barrique and terracotta and two years in bottle).   

95% Glera/5% Verdiso. Part of the Follador family's 7 hectares, Brichet (bree-KET) is a tiny .25-hectare plot of old, steeply terraced vines on white, stony, scrappy, limestone soils. It lies at high elevation and just outside of the Valdobiaddene DOCG, hence the IGT Colli Trevigiani classification...

100% Sangiovese from hillside vineyards located at between 270-320 meters. The average age of the vines is 15 years old. La Gerla Rosso spends six monhts in tank, then one year in Slavonian oak (large casks of 50hl) and another six months in bottle before being released.  

San Ferdinando’s Vermentino comes from vines planted in 2010 at 300m above sea level.  This north-facing vineyard has sand in the first 20cm of soil, with compact grey clay below.  Freshness and drinkability, rather than concentration, are the objectives in the wine, so the number of bunches per...

94% Sangiovese, 3% Malvasia Nera, 3% Canaiolo. Co-harvested/co-fermented in unlined concrete with macerations lasting a month.  Aged in unlined concrete vats.  This is Candialle's Chianti Classico 'annata,'  though its release date could easily classify it as a Riserva.  

80% Prugnolo Gentile/20% Canaiolo Nero & Mammolo. Prugnolo Gentile is the variant of Sangiovese found in Montepulciano and historically co-planted with supporting varieties like Canaiolo and Mammolo. Proprietor Dora Forsoni has been farmiing her family's vines organically forever, many of them...