Crealto 'Agricolae' Barbera 2021

Crealto 'Agricolae' Barbera 2021Eleonora Costa and Luigi Armanino came to Monferrato from Genoa in 2008 and took over a winery that looks out on a spectacular vista of vines, forests, and mountains. Named Crealto after the Piemontese word for chalk, the soils lend a mineral finesse to what are otherwise hearty, tannic wines. Their 'Agricolae' Barbera is a fantastic example of their approachable, warm style. While it's not a shy wine, it has notes of spiced apple, cinnamon stick,

10% white grapes

Thierry knew what he was doing when teaming up with Pierre-O

A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon

they are now making wines that are not only natural but ageworthy

Some of my favorite wines from them have been the 'daughter wines' named after each of their three daughters

and the wine is bottled unfiltered with a small addition of sulfur in the springtime before the wine starts to ferment again

planted on what looks like a sheer vertical wall

The grapes for this ‘Fodor’ Olaszrizling come from almost 60 year old vines that were part of Oszkar’s great-grandmother’s dowry

Despite the low latitude (28 degrees

The grapes are destemmed but not crushed

savory notes

It smells downright amazing: blueberry