Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020 After Dinner Wine: This Grand Cru is

Wine: This Grand Cru is celebrated for its heady aromas of tea leaves

The 2024 Loire vintage brought mildew pressure through a wet growing season

19 of which are locally sourced

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Scarpa Barbera d'Asti La Bogliona 2020 After Dinner Wine: This Grand Cru isThe 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,