Casébianco White 2019

Casébianco Blanc 2020,

Domaine Casé

On the fertile clay-limestone soils of Val Trebbia in Emilia-Romagna, Alberto Anguissola founded the Casè estate in 1998. He first learned viticulture from the region's most experienced winemakers and finally embraced his passion by first planting a small amount of Pinot Noir around his grandparents' country house. Later, he bought fifty- or sixty-year-old vines abandoned by their owners and expanded the estate. The plots are located at an altitude of over six hundred meters and the grape varieties, in addition to the Pinot Noir and Marsanne that Alberto planted, are resolutely local: Barbera, Bonarda, Croatina, Malvasia, Ortrugo, Moscato Bianco… What motivates this winemaker is a passion for winemaking, but also for the kind of life and society that this model of traditional viticulture implies. He does not allow any chemical inputs, whether in the vineyard or in the cellar, and strives to keep the land as healthy as possible for nature and for man. Love for the local winemaking tradition plays a large part in his choices, for example the use of large wooden barrels for fermentation, a thousand-year-old technique that the historian Strabo had already described in the 1st century BC.

Casèbianco is a magnificent orange wine like the ones Emilia-Romagna and particularly Alberto know how to produce. Made from four white grape varieties (Ortrugo, Malvasia, Marsanne and White Muscat) planted on the same plot alongside red grape varieties (a common practice in the region), this wine is a superb expression of the soil and tradition: the ten-day skin maceration gives a surprising result, sweet and fruity aromas combined with pronounced floral notes and the dryness typical of orange wine. This nectar for the table awaits Italian or Mediterranean dishes, wild mushrooms, charcuterie and cured meats, spit-roasted rabbit with garlic and thyme.

Natural wine with no added sulfites.