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VILLA REMOTTI | Piemonte

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With a passion for fine wine, Raffaella Rossi and her husband, Riccardo Garosci, founded Villa Remotti in 2002. When they purchased this beautiful villa in the town of Fubine Monferrato, the estate had 2 hecatars under vine, each one its own single vineyard. An archeological investigation revealed that vines had been growing on this estate for two thousand years. Being novices to viticulture and the business of wine, Rossi hired Giorgio Caroscio, a local grower and winemaker with decades of experience in growing Barbera on this land. Caroscio is directly involved in the cellar, and has applied his artisanal expertise in transforming the estate to meet demands of their niche market of restaurants and wine shops. The winemaking consultant is one of Italy’s most famous wine-makers, Donato Lanati, who founded nearby Enosis, “L Universita del Vino di Donao Lanati,” an innovative laboratory devoted to analysis and research of native grape varieties. Lanati’s credentials also include being a Professor of Enological technology at the University of Turin and also as consulting enologist for wine estates, universities and other wine related businesses nationally and internationally.

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