In our earlier journey through Monferrato (link) – the beating heart of Piedmont’s viticultural soul – we found a landscape of quiet resistance, one where Barbera, Freisa, Grignolino and a constellation of local varieties still speak in their own voice, well outside the long shadow cast by Barolo and Barbaresco. (Read the full story here).
We return to the same hills today for a closer look at one of the region’s more interesting recent arrivals: Frasca La Guaragna (link), a young estate built on an unlikely partnership between Curt (Curtis) Frasca, an Italian-American former record producer who fell for Nizza almost by accident, and Matteo Gerbi, a Piedmontese winemaker who set out to give Barbera its most serious expression. What began as a chance meeting in 2018 has grown into a project that treats Nizza DOCG (link) not as a curiosity but as the region’s rightful flagship.
„Frasca La GuaragnaGiving Nizza Its Own Voice“ weiterlesen