Daniele Ricci, Giallo di Costa, 2018 SHEMISCOUNT creating a wine with real

creating a wine with real tension and delicate structure

anchored on higher-elevation ground in the cooler northeastern sector of the zone

and steadily built an estate in the post-war years when land was cheap

framing the wine’s depth without overpowering its energy

leveraging decades of vineyard relationships to source from Coombsville

Daniele Ricci, Giallo di Costa, 2018 SHEMISCOUNT creating a wine with realA bottle that bends the rules of what a Piedmont white can be. Daniele Ricci farms Cascina San Leto in Costa Vescovato, in the eastern Colli Tortonesi the same calcareous clay soils that Serralunga d'Alba is famous for, just an hour east. Giallo di Costa comes from his oldest Timorasso vines, planted in 1986 at the top of a steep hillside. Then comes the surprise: roughly 90 days of skin contact, submerged cap, before aging in stainless until