Giuseppe Mascarello 'Toetto' 2023 Freisa Langhe, Piemonte

750ml bottle

14.5% abv

Deep ruby-red. Spicy bouquet of red fruit and flowers. Dry and full on the palate, with firm tannins and well-developed, tart black cherry and strawberry. Nutmeg, black pepper, licorice, and earthy mushroom waft in & out before a long, lovely finish.

Vineyard: Toetto, in the village of Castiglione Falletto
Grape Harvest: Beginning of October.
Wine-making process: Traditional-style, floating cap fermentation of selected estate-grown grapes for 15/20 days. The wine is then matured in medium-sized Slavonian oak barrels for few months or stabilized in inert tank.
Expected cellar life: 4/10 years
Bottling: After two years following the vintage
Type of bottle: Albeisa
Serving temperature: approx. 18°
Storage: Lying down in cool, dark surroundings
Pairings: Cold cuts, hors-d’oeuvres in general, pasta dishes, cheese; recommended with spicy food and ethnic cuisine.

Freisa from 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. 

In the hands of Barolo master Mauro Mascarello, Freisa becomes a graceful, complex wine with a piercing red, floral nose. Finely structured with a tannic edge, this wine has the potential to age up to 10 years.

The members of the Giuseppe Mascarello family have been growing wines for more than a century and a half, first as farmers running the Manescotto estate in the village of La Morra for the marchesa Giulia Colbert Faletti di Barolo, and then on their own property since the late 1800s. The skilled tending of the vineyards, handling of the wine-making processes, and maturing of the wines in large Slavonian oak casks are an element of cultural continuity with the past, keeping faith with local tradition and the work of four generations of vine-growers.