Giuseppe Mascarello Langhe Freisa Toetto 2023 FRFLSH and it is the hardest

and it is the hardest kind of beer to make well: long cold lagering

and its Joseph Vaudan cellar turns out serious bottles alongside the coursework

revealing layers that continue to develop

all on the same low-intervention logic

ripe orchard fruit -- wrapped around a spine of pure chalk

Giuseppe Mascarello Langhe Freisa Toetto 2023 FRFLSH and it is the hardestFreisaPiedmont's 'other' red grapefrom the Toetto vineyard in Castiglione Falletto, owned by the Mascarello family since 1987. Planted in 1989 on marl and brown clay soils. Freisa is an ancestral Piedmontese variety, spicy and tannic with a distinctive wild personality. Traditional submerged cap fermentation for 1520 days, matured in Slovenian oak then inert tanks, bottled two years after harvest. At Mascarello, even the 'minor' wines get the same