Last week, we sat down and thumbed through some old editions of the Gambero Rosso Guide to the Wines of Italy. All of them dated back to the era when Slow Food was still publishing the guide and Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini was still the editor-in-chief. We found three great quotes about Mario Pesce …
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The third in our series of educational videos by winemaker Silvio Trinchero. In this episode, he presents the estate’s Barbera d’Asti I Bricchi, one of its historic crus. In the 1970s, Scarpa became one of the first wineries — one of just of two at the time — to release a cru- or single-vineyard-designate Barbera. …
VIDEO: Scarpa winemaker Silvio Trinchero presents Barbera d’Asti I Bricchi 2015. Read More »
This is the second in a series of educational videos on the Scarpa estate and winery and its wines. In this clip, winemaker Silvio Trinchero presents Scarpa’s classic Barbera d’Asti known as “Casa Scarpa” which we could translate as “Domaine Scarpa.” It’s one of our most approachable and affordable wines yet it also captures the …
We asked Scarpa winemaker SIlvio Trinchero to prepare this short video including an overview of the estate and winery and the portfolio of wines we produced. Silvio worked side-by-side with Scarpa’s historic cellar master Carlo Castino for more than a decade before taking over as chief winemaker. (Carlo, who lives at the winery still tastes …
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One of the things that makes Antica Casa Scarpa such a unique winery is its vast library of back vintages. And not just back vintages of Barbera d’Asti La Bogliona (its top wine), Barolo, and Barbaresco. The wine cellar at Scarpa, which stretches back to the 1970s and beyond, also includes bottlings of other native …
20-year-old Scarpa Dolcetto by-the-glass at Perbacco in San Francisco Read More »
