Giuseppe Mascarello Langhe Freisa Toetto 2023 FRFLSH and its Joseph Vaudan cellar

and its Joseph Vaudan cellar turns out serious bottles alongside the coursework

and “Tsuru” for Crane

and premium pricing to a region that had been selling Barolo by the demijohn

all on the same low-intervention logic

lively and enticing

Giuseppe Mascarello Langhe Freisa Toetto 2023 FRFLSH and its Joseph Vaudan cellarFreisaPiedmont's 'other' red grapefrom the Toetto vineyard in Castiglione Falletto, owned by the Mascarello family since 1987. Planted in 1989 on marl and brown clay soils. Freisa is an ancestral Piedmontese variety, spicy and tannic with a distinctive wild personality. Traditional submerged cap fermentation for 1520 days, matured in Slovenian oak then inert tanks, bottled two years after harvest. At Mascarello, even the 'minor' wines get the same