Two vinifications, two philosophies

Cultivate :

a wonderful word.

A gesture that is cultivation, when our attention

is turned to plants.

It becomes culture, when it is addressed to us,

as an intellectual exercise. It rises to

worship, when it addresses the spirit.

Wine contains all this in itself,

materializing cultivation and culture and,

sometimes, becoming itself

an element of worship.

Granò

Some see it as yellow, like corn (granò), others orange, like medlar. Some identify it as amber, others copper. In reality, it is whatever it is in the eye of the beholder - you. Not only for the color, but also for
the scent, the feel, and the taste - senses create impressions and not objective data.
Look at it, breath it, touch it, and drink it; experience it through your own senses. You will understand
the reason why each wine is unique: because it is through you. We can tell you which grapevines have created it: Cortese and Muscat. We can write that we taste notes of dehydrated apricot.
We can tell you that it was born underground, in amphoras, and that matured in strange wooden barrels. We can confide in you that we believe it will continue to mature in the bottle, for many years to come. There are so many things we could convey. We like to drink it at 18°C, with aged cheeses, but you can also drink it without food or a little warmer, reestablishing wine’s age-old essence of food.
For us, it is enough to know that you like it.

Fujà

Croatina, Barbera, Pinot Nero, Dolcetto, Nibio, Ciliegiolo, Aleatico, Moscato Rosa, Moradella, Don Antonio. Let's imagine hearing you read, in sequence, the names of these eleven vines, as Bruno Pizzul did, when he rattled off the formation of a football team. He knew how to transform a list of names into a kind of futurist poetry. Fujà is a team. Each grape variety expresses its role with determination. At this moment, Fujà develops its action on the lateral sides of the tongue, where the tannic vines (Croatina primarily) support the creative genius of the aromatics (Moscato Rosa above all), waiting for the finesse of Pinot Noir to finalize the ensemble work. It will still take some time but Barbera guarantees the longevity of the team. Don Antonio, an old captain, moderates and softens the moods of his youth.
We do not recommend a drinking temperature. When, squeezing the bottle, your hands perceive the cool glass, it means that it will be fine. Respect for the great multitude of eating habits, therapeutic diets and ethical nutritional styles prevents us from directing your choice in terms of approach to food. The exuberance of Fujà suggests the comparison with dishes with strong flavors, where the fatty part plays a prominent role and needs to be contrasted, to prep are your mouth for new flavors. The last piec e of advice: don't listen to us. Do your own thing.

Cimento

It is material substance, endowed with weight. To such an extent that, in English, the noun "cement" indicates concrete. It is perhaps no coincidence that Cimento was born and raised in wine vessels made of concrete. Of the stone, in which he lived, it evokes many scents that characterize the olfactory spectrum: the minerality of the dry stone and the iodized aroma of the wet rock. 

From the inanimate world of minerals, the aromas of Cimento come close to those of the plant kingdom, evoking the smoky notes of peat up to the point of recalling the scents of dried tea leaves and the fragrance of chamomile flowers.

Do not be afraid of Cimento's taste-olfactory opulence: it is powerful, certainly, but it can be just as gentle. Better still, it is courteous, by lineage, like the grape that generated it: Cortese.

Losco

On Thursday, October 1st 2020, we buried Timorasso for the first time. A Georgian amphora, with a capacity of 1700 liters, was filled with its must and its peels. For 7 months, it was confined to Caucasian land, separated from it by a thin, diffuse layer of beeswax. A heavy stone disc, placed on the neck of the amphora, was the only barrier between the inside and the outside. 

Two times daily we did a “punching down”, for the first 10 days of tumultuous fermentation and, subsequently, the vertical confinement of the peels, for the continuation of maceration, in conditions of submerged cap.

After 7 months, the wine was separated from the peels, by draining, and decanted into old 500-liter wooden casks where it remained, before bottling, until the first days of September 2021. In this way, the first Timorasso was born obtained by a very long "infusion" of the peels in wine; a unique wine. The most fascinating aspect of Losco is its peculiar relationship with time.

“Fugit irreparabile tempus” (from Latin “time runs out beyond repair”), Virgilio described in this way the inexorable flow of time. Many men wish to delay its flow. Few try to anticipate its development. We are among the latter. Losco embodies the desire to make the future present, to drink, in advance, what it will be: a temporal wine-gate that allows you to enjoy an unimaginable sensorial balance, for a wine of this age and with a singular history behind it.

Fontanalbina Derthona 

Contamination, border lands, rediscovery of ancient roots, is what Timorasso represents, an indigenous grape variety produced outside regional borders, but within an Apennine area that has farmer culture, the land, the air and the sky, in common with the Staffora Valley; this thought fascinated us, and led us to believe in this forgotten vine.
Its peculiarity and its eccentricity can already be perceived from the color, when the green reflections merge into the gold, when the tactile sensations in the mouth make one perceive warmth, softness, balance and persistence; perceptions enhanced by the serving temperature, which must never be too low.
This is a wine that is "obtained", it’s enough not to step on the grapes, we just have to represent it, to best express the greatness of the grape. Long-lived white, which evolves in a surprising and intriguing way, so as to make it suitable for combining with what you like best, without stereotypes and preconceptions; to the point of becoming a wine that can accompany your intimate and personal sensory journey.
"In Garbagna, during one of my trips, I drank very good, full, harmonious, viperine white wine ..."
Luigi Veronelli
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