2022 Croci, Ermano Lubigo Bianco Frizzante Emilia-Romagna, Italy Oriol Artigas before bottling without fining

before bottling without fining

This is a real game-changer for Australian Nebbiolo— a wine that manages to capture the elusive perfume

Has lovely high acid

It didn’t make sense to put this anomaly section into the block designate wines

tea-scented smoke alongside nose-drying

2022 Croci, Ermano Lubigo Bianco Frizzante Emilia-Romagna, Italy Oriol Artigas before bottling without fining100% Ortrugo. Massimiliano Croci refers to his steep, southeast facing hillside vineyard as a beach: the soils (terre dei fossili piacenzano) are crumbly, sandy clay, full of disintegrating, limestone rich marine fossils. Lubigo translates as landslide and is the name of the Ortrugo parcel in this traditional frizzante rifermentato. The farming has been organic for generations, with all vineyard work and harvest into small bins done by hand. The