Montesissa "Rio Mora" Emilia Rosso Frizzante 2022

Montesissa "Rio Mora" Emilia Rosso Frizzante 2022Elisabetta Montesissa is following in the footstepsthough maybe not foot stompsof her grandfather. "My grandad pressed with his feet, now we have a machine to do it," she says. "My grandad bottled without doing analyses. Now we do analyses on the residual sugar. These are the only differences. Ive always lived among vineyards and in agriculture. My grandad and my father have always farmed this way. We have been working for three generations to farm

It's all from different plots and Milan calls it a "civil debate" where no plot or vintage speaks more loudly than the others

You can’t talk vin de soif without mentioning the Gamays of the Beaujolais

"Melon is very responsive to the rock it grows on

saline notes that speak clearly of the vineyards’ proximity to the Atlantic Ocean

Teroldego has been one of my benchmark grapes ever since I caught natural wine bug

it is one you can chill down

He stands with both feet firmly planted on the ground

In 1673 Jean Boxler came from Switzerland to Alsace in to establish the family domaine

refreshing and complex

Aged in 600L neutral barrels for two years

and using goat manure instead of cow manure

This is a finite resource and it’s a privilege to be the only vintner to make wine from grapes grown there