Sette
Right now, the Asti hills are Piedmont's most exciting laboratory, and Sette is running the loudest experiments. Gino Della Porta and Gian Luca Colombo bought a wrecked, industrially farmed slope in 2017 and coaxed it back to life. The wines that follow are vivid, fresh and a little rebellious. Barbera you didn't know you were waiting for.
Sette began in 2017 when wine-trade veteran Gino Della Porta and superstar enologist Gian Luca Colombo bought 5.8 hectares on Bricco di Nizza, deep in Nizza Monferrato. The vineyard arrived battered by decades of industrial farming, so they let it detox, went organic, then leaned into biodynamics from 2020, planting trees and cruciferous crops to wake the soil up. The result is Barbera from vines up to 80 years old, playful detours into skin-contact Moscato and amphora Grignolino. Wines, they cheerfully say, that nobody needs and everybody wants.