Barbera/Freisa. 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% Ruche. Mainly from estate parcels scattered about the steep hills of the Monferrato zone of Asti around the Verruàs' home village of Scurzolengo (there is some purchased Ruché in the mix too). The family farms organically, tending and harvesting the vines entirely by hand. The grapes are...

100% Ruché. "Ruschena" is Tavijn's only wine from fruit sourced from neighbors, a family by the name of Ruschena. Those vines are over 70 years old in a small plot on particularly calcareous soils; they are farmed organically and harvested by hand (just as the Verruà family of Tavijn does things in...

This single-vineyard cru is La Gerla's flagship wine. Made in select years, this comes entirely from a one-hectare parcel of old vines (25-30 years old) from the original Biondi-Santi site, located between 270 and 320 meters above sea level. This hillside vineyard occupies a privileged position at...

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.  

100% Sangiovese. This wine comes from a gently sloped, east-northeast-facing, half-hectare parcel in the Fonterenza's Montalcino vineyard. Planted in 2005 but not bottled separately until the 2015 vintage, the biodynamically farmed vines are trained in alberello--which yield smaller amounts of more...

100% Trebbiano Toscano. From biodynamically farmed vines averaging 60 years old and planted on the clay-based, volcanic soils of the hilly Monte Amiata outside of Montalcino. Destemmed and fermented with native yeasts and without sulfur in steel tank with a 30-day maceration. The wine for a year in...

50% Vermentino/50% Malvasia. The fruit is from 25-to-50-year-old, organically farmed vines on sandy volcanic soils in the hilly Monte Amiata zone a few miles south of the town of Montalcino. The bunches are harvested by hand, destemmed, gently presssed and fermented spontaneously without sulfur in...

70% Montepulciano & 30% Sangiovese. Fermented in stainless steel and aged four months in steel & six months in bottle before release. As the Gambero Rosso puts it: “the Rosso Piceno is a consumer’s dream, straightforward but delicious and a pleasure to drink.”