Villa San Secondo

Villa San Secondo, an Asti municipality with just 387 residents, utilizes its hilly Piedmontese terrain to cultivate highly specific grape varieties. Within this small territory, local growers produce 18 protected denominations, led by the local Freisa d'Asti DOC, a wine produced across a zone of only 117 municipalities. The steep, calcareous clay slopes here provide the essential drainage and thermal shifts required to concentrate the rustic, berry-like characteristics of the Freisa grape. This specific micro-terroir transforms a tiny agrarian community into a vital contributor to Asti’s specialized viticultural landscape.