Claudio Viberti - Derthona, Timorasso, Piemonte, Italy (2023)

TASTING NOTES

Mineral, elegant and a little wet wool. With a dense, lees-y backbone, this is a precise, tense and thrilling wine. Really layered and a little Chablis-esque.

The story began when Antonio Viberti made wine to serve at the family’s inn, Al Buon Padre. His son Giovanni expanded the vineyards in the 1960s and helped transition the winery into a more serious estate.

Today, Claudio and his brother continue the work as one of the quiet, enduring names of Piedmont on 20 hectares of sustainably farmed vines. Claudio focuses on native varieties and west-facing slopes at high elevation, which give the wines energy, aromatic lift and structure. Everything is estate grown, fermented with indigenous yeast, and aged without flashy oak.