Camporomano Barbera LA STOPPA, Elena Pantaleoni, Rivergaro, Emilia-Romagna 2013 Cuvée des Gueux The pursuit of quality is

The pursuit of quality is the number one credo here

North Canterbury

a lovely creamy texture and mineral tones through to a classy finish

Stored in barrels and bottled manually

The whites are picked late to give them extra body and complexity

Camporomano Barbera LA STOPPA, Elena Pantaleoni, Rivergaro, Emilia-Romagna 2013 Cuvée des Gueux The pursuit of quality isRIVERGARO, Emilia Romagna La Stoppa spreads on 30 hectares of vines and 28 ha of forest on the first slopes of the Apennins in the South West part of Piacenza, at about 250 meters high. Here is a silty clay heavy soil, summers are dry and hot, and rains fall at end of automn or early spring. Elena Pantaleoni, the winemaker took over the family estate in 1993, helped by Giulio Armani, she rapidly guided the production toward the organic farming rules