Odilio Antoniotti - Coste della Sesia 2022 (750ml)
Odilio Antoniotti Description
The Antoniotti family has been making wine in their town of Casa del Bosco (Sostegno) in northern Piemonte for generations. Today Odilio, along with his son Mattia, work the vines and make the wines in the same traditional manner.
They currently work six hectares in two of Italy's smallest DOC's, Bramaterra and Coste della Sesia. Bramaterra is truly microscopic, with only a handful of vignaioli producing it. Coste della Sesia, while still small, is a broader 33 hectare appellation that overlaps with Bramaterra, Gattinara, Lessona and many others: usually the wines receive this appellation when they aren't as qualitative. A good example: four of the Antoniottis' six hectares fall within the Bramaterra appellation but only two are vinified as such.
Both appellations are Nebbiolo dominant, but the wines are always blended with various amounts of Croatina, Vespolina and Uva Rara depending on the vintage. Bramaterra needs to be aged at least 22 months in barrel before bottling; the Antoniotti do 30 months. Their Coste della Sesia ages for 18 months before bottling.
The soils here are volcanic porphyry, a type of granite rich in minerals.
Bramaterra and Coste della Sesia are such tiny appellations that only eight producers make wine in the former and twenty in the latter. The vines are only accessible through a long, steep and narrow path in a 4x4 vehicle.
