Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020 T-Shirt These hard conditions

These hard conditions

hands-off winemaking

undiluted (genshu)

and Les Folatières above

Most Morgon is defined by the Côte du Py and the decomposed schist that gives the cru its signature brooding depth

Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020 T-Shirt These hard conditionsThe 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,