some of the most delicious examples of the grape outside of its home region of the Loire Valley in France
The original Beauséjour vineyard was divided in 1869 when Pierre-Paulin Ducarpe's daughter married into the Duffau-Lagarrosse family
more austere than anything from the Langhe
La Peroline draws Syrah from old-vine parcels on the iron-rich
with 80% of its ingredients found locally (juniper
Lorenzo Accomasso, Dolcetto d'Alba, 2020 SO062625 Peyrassol offer some of the most deliciousDolcetto is the wine the Langhe drinks at lunch, and Lorenzo Accomasso made one of the most quietly compelling versions in La Morra. Even on this humble grape, his approach didn't change: hands off in the vineyard, slow ferments, no intervention in the cellar Dolcetto as it would have tasted in the 1960s, when his small estate first started bottling. The 2020 came from a warm, balanced vintage that gave the wine plenty of fruit without sacrificing its