Antica Casa Vinicola Scarpa has been producing traditional wines in the Monferrato hills of southeast Piemonte since 1854. This is Barbaresco the way it used to be made — where structure, spices, and minerals are at least as important as fruit. The extra aging in cask and in bottle results in a wine that is released when it’s at least beginning to show...

This plot, located on the southern flank of the CORTON hillside, in the "Charlemagne" climate, is planted with pinot noir and therefore cannot take the appellation CORTON CHARLEMAGNE reserved for white wine. This white terroir, of ocher clay marls, gives this wine great elegance, a lot of subtlety and complexity. The always harmonious tannins are ripe and...