Wines from Piedmont
It's not a big thing to claim that Piedmont is the most exciting wine region in northern Italy. This is certainly also due to the great wines from Barolo, but not just. It is precisely because of the rediscovery of the viticultural periphery that Piedmont has not only gained in diversity in recent years, but also in quality - this is particularly evident in regions such as Bramaterra, Ovada, Monferrato and the Colli Tortonesi, where the white grape variety Timorasso is celebrating its well-deserved renaissance and offers a fantastic alternative to the great red wines of the region.
Daniele Ricci: Derthona 2020
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- €16,80
Derthona is the old name for Tortona, the main town in the Colli Tortonesi, which form a bridge between southern Piedmont and Lombardy. Costo Vescovato, where Daniele owns his vineyards, is characterised by a slightly hilly topography with moderately steep slopes, mainly based on marl and pelite ...
Tenuta Grillo: Igiea 2005
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- €27,80
The Igiea is a single-varietal Barbera from the Alto Monferrato. However, as this is not allowed to appear on the label, because in Italy, as in all other European countries, there is a somewhat confused idea of how a grape variety and a region should manifest themselves in a wine, Guido Zampagli...
Rocco di Carpeneto: Reìs 2021
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- €15,90
Data sheet Grape variety: 100% Cortese Vineyard: Vigna Bastian. At approx. 250 metres above sea level. Limestone. Harvest: by hand Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts, 3-day maceration Ageing: 6 months in acacia barrels Filtration: no SO₂: < 10 mg/litre Alcohol content: 14.5% vol. Closur...
Rocco di Carpeneto: Aur-oura 2020
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- €13,90
The entry-level wine in Rocco di Carpeneto's Dolcetto world - downgraded to DOC by Lidia and Paolo, although this voluntary downgrading is difficult to understand even for us: although the Aur-oura is a classic second wine from the Gaggero and Vicario vineyards, the quality of the grape material ...
Colombera & Garella: Vispavola 2021
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- €15,90
Giacomo Colombera and Cristiano Garella's latest project, Vespolina, puts the spotlight on a grape variety that usually plays a leading but only minor role in the Nebbiolo cuvées of Piedmont's north. This time, however, it has all the attention and knows how to make the most of it - and that is ...
Eugenio Bocchino: Roccabella 2019
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- €26,90
La rocca bella, the beautiful rock, is just a stone's throw away from La Morra and yet already outside the sacred zone of Barolo. Cinzia and Eugenio own 1.5 hectares of vines there, which they planted entirely with Nebbiolo in 1997. The soil is mainly based on clay and sand. The Roccabella is the...
Rocco di Carpeneto: Losna 2018
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- €17,20
Dolcetto is a fantastic variety with one crucial problem: it is overshadowed by Nebbiolo. Whether this is justified or not remains to be seen, but the fact is that in Alba and the surrounding area, every reasonably decent vineyard is planted with Nebbiolo. For Dolcetto - but also for the great Gr...
Tenuta Grillo: Pratoasciutto 2006
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- €26,80
Dolcetto plays the leading role and no other variety has a say. It is matured in old vats, fermented beforehand with its own yeasts, the maceration time is long (40 days), the harvest is manual and the work in the vineyard is geared towards minimal yields (2500kg/ha). The wine only contains micro...
Tenuta Grillo: Pecoranera 2004
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- €26,80
Freisa, the protagonist in this blend with an 80% share, is one of the most exciting grape varieties in Piedmont. As a close relative of Nebbiolo, it has very similar attributes - subtle aromas, robust acidity, plenty of tannin and immense ageing potential - but has one actually positive characte...
Colombera & Garella: Bramaterra 2019
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- €34,90
High up in the north, where Piedmont is slowly knocking on Switzerland's door, is Bramaterra, an ancient wine enclave where viticulture has been documented for many hundreds of years. Before Bramaterra was declared a DOC in 1979, the region's wine was called "Vino dei Canonici", referring to the ...
Eugenio Bocchino: Barbera d'Alba 2021
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- €21,90
Eugenio Bocchino's focus is on Nebbiolo. However, he also cultivates an excellent Barbera, which he vinifies with the same meticulous craftsmanship and attention to detail. Barbera has all the attributes to make exceptional wines - even if there are countless examples to disprove this. Its defi...
Tenuta Grillo: Baccabianca 2013
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- €26,80
Cortese with a difference. With Baccabianca, everything that the grape possesses is extracted. Every phenol, every pigment and every flavour particle from the grape skin finds its way into Guido Zampaglione's wine. After spontaneous fermentation, it matures for years in steel tanks and for even m...
Rocco di Carpeneto: Reitemp 2016
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- €19,90
The top Barbera from Rocco di Carpeneto: it combines all the positive attributes that one would expect from this grape variety: precise aromas, a truly lively acidity, vitality, substance and density and an earthy, rustic undertone. The vines, planted in 1955, are all rooted in the clay and loam-...
Colombera & Garella: Lessona 2020
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- €34,90
With just 18 hectares of vineyards, Lessona is the smallest of the three DOC zones in which the Colomberas own vineyards. Despite its microscopic dimensions, Lessona has a few special features that set it apart from the other two regions. Firstly, there is the climate, which in some exposures tak...
Daniele Ricci: El Matt 2019
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- €13,90
Croatina is a Piedmontese-Lombardy grape variety that can basically provide the basis for excellent red wines and should be recommended to every wine drinker. The only problem is that you often don't know whether Croatina is really inside where it says Croatina on the label (Daniele Ricci's El Ma...