Vini Sassara, Misià 2021

Vini Sassara is the latest project from natural winemaking veterans Alessia and Stefano Bertaiola. Their vines, located near Lake Garda, are smack dab in the middle of Bardolino country, a DOC famous for light reds and rosés – but that’s not particularly important to these two. They’d rather show off what the area’s terroir and indigenous varieties are capable of when left to their own devices. Their first release, Esotico, was quite the flex – a mixture of ten different grape varieties, 70% of which are white and 30% of which are red – and defies classification. And they’ve only gone from strength to strength since then,