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David Fletcher
Barbaresco, Italy, Australia6 wines4.3 avg
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An Australian winemaker in Barbaresco - crus across Barbaresco and Neive, traditional Nebbiolo with an outsider's precision, and one of the most unusual origin stories in Piedmont.
David Fletcher is an Adelaide-born winemaker who fell for Nebbiolo on a 2004 trip and moved to Piedmont in 2007 to work harvest at Ceretto, where he became assistant winemaker in 2012. He launched his own label in 2009 as a negociant project, sourcing fruit from growers across Barbaresco, Alba and Roero. In 2014 he and his wife Eleanor bought Barbaresco's abandoned train station and converted it into their cellar and home, 'La Stazione.' The wines lean on spontaneous fermentation with a pied de cuve, neutral wood for the reds and a mixed-age barrel program for the Chardonnay, with no filtration or fining.
