Balbiano Surpreisa Freisa di Chieri ">
| Vintage: | 2023 |
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| Winery: | Balbiano |
| Description: | The Balbiano Winery was founded in 1941, when the Podestà of Andezeno granted Melchiorre Balbiano the permission for the wholesale of wines and grapes. Melchiorre, before deciding to make wine, was a very busy manager of some farms in Andezeno: corn, wheat, meliga, cattle and farmyard animals were his daily activity, even if what fascinated him most had always been the grape. For a long time, in fact, he had worked as a grape broker, a typical profession of the early 20th century, when DOC did not exist and the need to move grapes, departing and arriving from all parts of Italy, was truly compelling. The early 1940s were a difficult period: the war decimated the cities and countryside, food and wine were rationed. The post-war period was a time of great economic recovery, but above all it was the moment in which Melchiorre met Giuseppina Villa, a young girl from Turin, of Neapolitan origins, who quickly became his wife. From their love Carla was born and, in 1948, Francesco Balbiano. Francesco, known to all as "Franco", helps his father in the daily work of a cellar, learning the trade "in the field". In 1973, after graduating in Chemistry, he found himself at the crossroads: should he continue his career as a chemist or take over his father's business?. His choice was the natural result of what Francesco loved most of all: his land, his traditions. From selling in bulk or in demijohns he moved on to the bottle, the cellar was transformed, the winemaking techniques and instruments were increasingly refined and advanced. The turning point occurs when Francesco decides that it is time to move the production cellar from the historic site to the new site, at the nineteenth-century farmhouse where the family had lived for some time. This is a radical transformation: a long, laborious, delicate but respectful renovation of the ancient structure and which did not only concern the building, but also and above all the "technology" in the cellar. Francesco's friendship with his colleagues from the Langhe area is the prelude to a radical change. Away with the old wooden and concrete barrels: thermo-controlled stainless steel tanks, filters, pumps, bottling machine, crusher-destemmer, micro-oxygenators appear in the new and well-equipped cellar. Now today we have the current era of small batches of fine wine, and authentically Piemontese, with a fierce dedication to a rare red grape named Freisa. The methods at Balbiano are Sustainable, using renewable energy for production, and Organic farming practices are used, with no herbicides nor pesticides. |
| Price: | $ 29.99 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from Bottle Shop of Spring Lake
| Address: |
1400 Third Ave Spring Lake, NJ 07762 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 732-449-5525 |
| Fax: | 732-449-1708 |
First added to 1000 Corks on December 21, 2024.
