2022 Cascina Lieto 'Sage' Rosso, Piedmont, Italy I Favati as Benoit makes another wine

as Benoit makes another wine from lower down the same slope called Les Charots

mixed into classic cocktails like the “Brooklyn” or topped with a pilsner

the wine is aged for 36 months in large Slavonian oak casks before spending a year further resting in bottle

Poor Ranch Vyd (multi-generational family owned on benchland outside Hopland)

Clay-limestone with a concentration of white clay

2022 Cascina Lieto 'Sage' Rosso, Piedmont, Italy I Favati as Benoit makes another wineFrom the tiny, organic micro estate of Hiroto & Rie Sasaki in Castiglione Tinella, this is a field blend red built on Barbera Grosso and Freisa, grown on clay limestone loess hills and hand harvested in micro lots. The fruit is fermented with native yeasts in open top vats using gentle daily pump overs, then aged in neutral barrels and vats (no new oak), bottled unfined, unfiltered, and with very light sulfur.