Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020 T-Shirt where soils are shallow red

where soils are shallow red clay — just 28 to 38 centimeters deep — over limestone bedrock

These hard conditions

and Les Folatières above

Most Morgon is defined by the Côte du Py and the decomposed schist that gives the cru its signature brooding depth

Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020 T-Shirt where soils are shallow redThe Land Barbera was long dismissed as Piedmont's everyday grape, the wine farmers drank while saving their Nebbiolo for special occasions. La Bogliona is Scarpa's argument that Barbera can be as serious as anything in the region. It comes from a single vineyard in the Bogliona locality near Nizza Monferrato, on soils unusually high in sand, close to 40 percent, along with magnesium. Scarpa calls the wine la figlia della sabbia, the daughter of sand,