Brezza Barolo Sarmassa 2021 Esthers Les Castets

Les Castets

some over a century old

Paolo de Marchi — the man behind Isole e Olena in Chianti — came back to his family's ancestral ground with his son Luca in 1999 to bring it back

This Brut Nature—no dosage added—shows chalk

It turns up in the written record as far back as 1785

Brezza Barolo Sarmassa 2021 Esthers Les CastetsBrezza remains one of Piedmont's great undiscovered gems. The family has been in the village of Barolo since 1885, and current proprietor Enzo Brezza trained with both his father and his godfather, the legendary Bartolo Mascarello, adopting the traditional approach: organic farming, spontaneous fermentation, long macerations, and aging in large Slavonian oak casks. Where Brezza departs from the Mascarello playbook is in bottling three single vineyard