Cascina Alberta

Cascina Alberta sits in Treiso, one of the highest and most southerly Barbaresco communes, where brothers Francesco and Luca Guermani took over the estate around 2011 and rebuilt it around the old farmhouse and original 1979 Nebbiolo plantings. The property covers 19 hectares - around 9 under vine, the rest meadows, orchards and woodland - with main holdings in the Giacone MGA in Treiso plus a small Serragrilli parcel in Neive added in 2021. The range covers Barbaresco DOCG (Giacone, Serragrilli, and a Marne Bianche cuvée from the highest, marl-rich section of Giacone), Langhe Nebbiolo, Barbera d'Alba Superiore, Langhe Riesling and Moscato d'Asti. The vineyards have been pesticide-free since 2012; full organic certification (Valoritalia, IT-BIO-015) followed in 2019. In the cellar the brothers favour indigenous yeasts, hold sulfur back until after malolactic, and keep oak ageing to the minimum, leaning on large Slavonian botti rather than barrique.