Ca de Noci 'Le Rose' Bianco Frizzante Emilia 2021

Press 2 • August 2023 Direct Press Selection Natural wine would not be where it is today without people willing to go against the grain back when there were few other people to provide examples. Brothers Giovanni and Alberto Masini were truly outliers back in 1993. "We have not been influenced by people but by the call of nature, which demanded respect; and by society, which demanded a revolution to react to the wine industry," Giovanni explained to me. "The birth of mass production social cooperatives in 1900 made it possible to transform this region. The families that made wine began to sell the grapes to the large wineries to lower production costs—but this began a continuous decline in the quality of the wines, and it risked extinguishing the families that made wine." It also risked extinguishing the nearly 100 autochthonous grape varieties in the region, and the Masini brothers have worked hard to keep some of these alive: Spergola, Malbo Gentile, Montericco, and others that few h