Trebbiolo Rosso - Barbera 60% Bonarda 40% - is a natural wine matured in stainless steel tanks. The nose is fresh with cherry and red berries mingling with wilder notes. Lively and juicy, the palate bursts with sweet/sour morello cherries and hints of spices. In all, it is a lovely, fresh, lively and fruit-driven wine which is best enjoyed with food.
'La Stoppa seem to delight in doing the unexpected: whites that aren’t white, that age and reds for drinking young. This is the first vintage of the Trebbiolo (named after a local river) that isn’t frizzante although there is certainly a little bit of residual CO2. Wild, earthy, yeastiness on the nose, incongruously like fresh vanilla pod with its earthy sweet-leathery notes. Aromas of small berries, blackberries, myrtille. Dryish on palate, which is meaty, earthy, spicy, sweet earth, lardo, reminds me of Bellota ham and refreshing acidity. Youthful and purple and vibrant. Cries out for a big plate of charcuterie and cheese and some top class air-dried hams.'
Elena Pantaleoni owns this wonderful 58-ha organically-tended estate (30 planted to vines) where wild herbs grow freely between the rows and no chemical fertilizers, weed killers or pesticides are ever applied.