Cascina Boccaccio

In Tagliolo Monferrato, in the province of Alessandria, Cascina Boccaccio cultivates four of its six hectares as vineyards, leaving the rest to woodland and uncultivated land—a choice that protects the property's biological balance. The work revolves around a single wine, Dolcetto di Ovada Superiore DOCG, from the Piedmontese grape variety whose name seems to derive from "dossetto," the small hill where it thrives best. Here, Dolcetto sheds its reputation as a simple, everyday red: the Superiore designation mandates at least twelve months of aging, which softens the fruit and brings out the typical almond notes of the grape in these lands. It is a wine of the territory more than of the cellar, built on the vigor of the soil and on viticulture attentive to its surrounding environment. Visitors to the cascina will find this philosophy demonstrated in action before words, and can conclude their visit with a tasting that reveals how a grape once considered minor can gain significant depth with time.

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