This area of Piedmont is also home to a forgotten white grape known as Nascetta. This grape nearly went extinct due to a few factors. First, this grape is delicate and low producing, second, the wine produced requires age to come into it’s own. By 1950 the world had been swept by that Phylloxera pest I mentioned above, and two world wars.
Those factors disincentivized desperate growers from planting it.
Thankfully the University of Torino had a few surviving specimens which were rediscovered and cloned in the 2000s. Now Nascetta is back and ready to impress. Dry, with a complex floral/mineral aroma, and full body. Regarding the requiring of age to develop, this Ellena Giuseppe spends 12 months on lees, followed by 6 months in bottle before release. We’ve got ourselves the 2020 which will be drinking beautifully now.