{"title":"Francesco Versio","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the greatest things about this Golden Era for Piedmont is that there are so many new producers to get to know. In the 1990s, if you loved classically-made Barolo or Barbaresco, you could look to only a dozen names at most. Now, the situation is far more like Burgundy, with lots of smaller previously unknown producers who have upped their games and are ready to be taken seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s still pretty rare, though, to find a producer who is completely band new. How many people out there could possibly be qualified to start a new domaine in Barolo or Barbaresco? Not many.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Francesco Versio is eminently qualified. He was hand-picked by none other than Bruno Giacosa to serve as cellar master. He learned to make wine from Giacosa and Giacosa’s right-hand man Dante Scaglione. When Scaglione left Giacosa (for a few years; he’s back now), Versio took over the winemaking. In 2017 Versio moved to Luigi Oddero, where together with the same Dante he has helped to dramatically improve quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf course, qualifications alone do not make great wine! You also need great vines. Fortunately, the Versio family happens to have a few rows located in two Crus, Curra and San Cristoforo, in the village of Neive (Giacosa’s home village in DOC Barbaresco). Until 2012, the family sold off the grapes. Since 2013, Francesco has bottled them under his own name, making quantities so small that he has had to continue working for Giacosa and Oddero.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/francesco-versio.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}