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Tenuta Grillo
Monferrato, Italy7 wines4.2 avg
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Gamalero, Monferrato. Guido Zampaglione's certified-organic, long-élevage natural domaine. Whites like Baccabianca - 60-90-day macerated Cortese released seven years on - in the Gravner/Radikon lineage.
Tenuta Grillo is Guido Zampaglione's Piedmontese estate in Gamalero in the Alessandria province of Monferrato, where he settled in the mid-1990s after leaving his native Irpinia. Of the 32 hectares, around 17 are planted, split between Freisa, Dolcetto, Barbera and Merlot on the red side and Cortese, Sauvignon Blanc, and Chardonnay on the white. The cellar is patient and uncompromising: long skin contact on whites as well as reds, native ferments, very long élevage in steel and bottle, and many wines released eight to fifteen years after harvest. Zampaglione also runs Il Tufiello in Calitri, Campania, where Fiano grown between 750 and 800 metres becomes the deeply macerated Sancho Panza and Montemattina cuvées.
