Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020 T-Shirt hands-off winemaking

hands-off winemaking

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These hard conditions

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where soils are shallow red clay — just 28 to 38 centimeters deep — over limestone bedrock

Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020 T-Shirt hands-off winemakingThe Land Barbera was long dismissed as Piedmont's everyday grape, the wine farmers drank while saving their Nebbiolo for special occasions. La Bogliona is Scarpa's argument that Barbera can be as serious as anything in the region. It comes from a single vineyard in the Bogliona locality near Nizza Monferrato, on soils unusually high in sand, close to 40 percent, along with magnesium. Scarpa calls the wine la figlia della sabbia, the daughter of sand,