Luigi Ferrando Carema 'Etichetta Bianca' 2021 Southern Rhone from the high-altitude gravelly clay-limestone

from the high-altitude gravelly clay-limestone of the Tagelsteiner vineyard just outside the town of Pfaffstätten

the latter of which possesses soils of clay-limestone and loess

Fermentation of the 2023 “Mepari” began in stainless steel via pied de cuve and finished in 20-hectoliter Slavonian oak cask with spillover into three smaller barrels

it displays a core of sappy black-cherry fruit framed by precise minerality and polite tannins

with a harmony of elements that suggests great cellaring potential

Luigi Ferrando Carema 'Etichetta Bianca' 2021 Southern Rhone from the high-altitude gravelly clay-limestoneThere is any wine that defines the Ferrando oeuvre it is this one: the white label Carema. No single wine in our portfolio is more illustrative of our work than this brilliant rendition of Nebbiolo. Produced exclusively from the Nebbiolo grape planted in a series of vineyards that sit beneath Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) in a broad amphitheatre with full southern exposure overlooking the river, Dora Baltea, that runs from the snow capped mountains south