“u Baccan” Pigato Riviera Ligure di Ponente DOC 2024 (BIO)

Az. Agr. Bruna | Liguria
Az. Agr. Bruna di Francesca Bruna | Via Umberto I 81 | IT 18020 Ranzo

08010224 · 0,75 l · 62,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately

Riccardo Bruna was U Baccan – the boss, the patron, the head. That's what the people in Ranzo called him. He was the one who started bottling his family's pigato in 1970, when nobody else was doing it. He was the one who managed the terraces, repaired the walls and brought up the daughters. Francesca gave up her career as an engineer, Annamaria as a pharmacist – both returned to continue running the estate. The estate bears his name, this wine bears his nickname. The grapes for the U Baccan come exclusively from the oldest plots above Ranzo – vines over fifty years old, on soils with iron oxide and manganese inclusions, which give the soil its characteristic red colour and the wine its depth. The result, says Ian d'Agata in "Native Wine Grapes of Italy", is the paradigmatic Pigato of all: balsamic and rich. Fermentation in steel, ageing in large wooden barrels – the wood as a resting pole, not as a flavour carrier. The wine opens slowly, needs air and time.

Golden straw yellow colour. Peach, yellow herb blossom, beeswax, acacia honey and camomile on the nose – complex, with a mineral and balsamic depth in the background, which is not immediately visible but layers itself. Full-bodied, creamy on the palate, carried by an extraordinary freshness, with a long, mineral-salty final that never ends. Probably Liguria's best white wine – and a silent monument to a man who simply knew what he was doing. SUPERIORE.DE