Pietro Cassina's Winery

• Tradition

• Passion

• Ambition

Keeping our philosophy, we are committed to always offer better quality, crafting fine wines, always elegant and suitable for both great celebration and everyday life.

• Environment

The winery is located in Lessona, a small town in the north-east of Piedmont surrounded by hills and mountains, not far from Monte Rosa and Turin. The wine estate covers an area of about 7 hectares of vineyards surrounded by woods that create a particular microclimate for the cultivation of Nebbiolo. The Lessona region is one of the few areas in the world where Nebbiolo finds its ideal environment.

We are in the Super Volcano area, officially recognized by Unesco, where the "terroir" is very particular, with a very acidic pH (3.5- 3.7 ph). Intheearly 1900s,thegrowthofthetextilesectoraroundBiellaand a general growth of the industries, combined with the repeated hailstorms and the appearance of Phylloxera, led to the sudden abandonment of the vineyards in Alto Piemonte. The hectares of vines decreased from about 40000 to the current 1300. The good news is given by the fact that today's vineyards lie in the best plots, and surrounded by woods that create an ideal microclimate for the cultivation of local native vines (Nebbiolo, Vespolina, Croatina, Erbaluce and Uva Rara). The Monte Rosa massif protects us from harsh winters and too hot summers.

• Wines

Our mission is to operate to the best while respecting traditions and transferring, as much as possible, the nature and the identity of our territory from the vineyard to the bottle. We age our wines mainly in large oval barrels made of Swiss and Austrian oak (mostly Stockinger), which are mechanically very hard woods that do not release intense scents and aromas (such as Vanilla, typical of other oaks), allowing the wine a right macro-oxygenation that makes it the real leading actor. We produce "Lessona", the wine offered by Quintino Sella in 1870 to toast the unification of Italy and "Coste della Sesia". For our finest wines we plan at least three years of aging in wood, and after being bottled, we refine them at about nine meters below the ground level for at least another 3-5 years. Although this is a small winery, Pietro divides the various "grand crus" as the French often do. We produce about ten labels with a surface of only 7 hectares cultivated with three different varieties of vine: Nebbiolo, Vespolina and Erbaluce.