La Ca'Nova Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy 2022The Rocca family has grown grapes in Barbaresco for four generations. For much of that history, their fruit was sold to neighbors, including Angelo Gaja and his father before him a quiet acknowledgment of the exceptional quality of their holdings. In the early 1970s, Pietro Rocca, the family's fourth generation patriarch, made the decision to bottle under the La Ca'Nova label, launching what has become one of Barbaresco's most admired traditional

free-run juice is settled overnight

or gin-based cocktails

The village Meursault is a blend of five distinct parcels across the appellation

Aromas: Light wood smoke

avoiding new oak to maintain purity

TASTING: ganache

only 50% of the first press used

Vinification: Hand harvested in early September

with as many as 50 individual clonal fermentations managed per vintage across just six Pinot Noir bottlings

or aged goat cheese

aromatic bitters

The Ravigote sauce—a lively blend of vinegar