Miani, Bianco, 2023 SO021624_Collet This is Barbera as it

This is Barbera as it should be—simple

and minimalist with fresh acidity

Hugo Mathurin and Talloulah Dubourg founded Domaine de Cassiopée in 2020

and structured for the long haul

There’s purity of fruit—think black cherry

Miani, Bianco, 2023 SO021624_Collet This is Barbera as itFrom the man many consider Italy's greatest white winemaker, working out of a humble cellar in Friuli. Enzo Pontoni farms 15 hectares of steep, hilly vineyards in the Colli Orientali, on the region's classic ponca soils, a 60 to 80 million year old layering of marl and sandstone. He famously rarely leaves Friuli, tends every vine obsessively by hand, and makes microscopic quantities, well under 2,000 cases total across all his bottlings. The Bianco is