Gaggiano Viticoltori, Coste Della Sesia Rosso “Leandro”

If you opened this email, I’m going to assume you know what “Alto Piemonte” means. This part of Piedmont is probably the most buzzed-about wine region in Italy other than Sicily’s Mount Etna, and the two regions’ narratives are strikingly similar: Both are historically important terroirs that have been reborn, and in the case of the Alto Piemonte, it has given lovers of the Nebbiolo grape a new range of expressions to obsess over.Gaggiano Viticoltori is a relatively new arrival on the Alto Piemonte wine scene, which generally has very few new arrivals: Most of the appellations up here have shrunk to almost nothing since their 19th- and early 20th century heydays, so even a well-capitalized “startup” isn’t likely to find much available vineyard land for sale. Marco and Claudio Fabris created Gaggiano as an homage to their grandfather, Gervasio, who, like many grape-growers in this part of Piedmont, abandoned agriculture for factory work during the ’60s and ’70s. Gervasio grew grapes and