Cantina Cantina
Canavese

Cantina Cantina is a producer of natural wines as well as farmhouse and old world style ales and lagers you may be familiar with in the New York market. They make some amazing sparkling wines out on Long Island, as well as gypsy brewing at a few breweries out there. We've tasted a lot and have loved everything.

But it was at our first meeting that they mentioned a little project just 20 minutes from Aosta. In the small community of the Canavese, Cantina Cantina (who demurred on any notion of being mentioned by name) the team bought grapes from old vineyards of Barbera, Freisa, Bonarda, Neretto, Chatus, Erbaluce, and some other Piedmontese varieties to make one white and one red under their banner. They had an unmarked bottle of the red bled in a liter bottle that I sipped for 2 days out in Orient, near the brewery. Of course it was completely fantastic, and was an expression of a part of the wine world I've known for many years, but with a fresh and transparent outlook we look for in all our wines, wherever they come from.