Our wines
Here at Cascina Castagna we make our wines in our own winery. We are a small winery, making various wines in low quantity. The wines are sold directly to the customers here at the farm winery.
We proudly launched our very first wine in 2010 – a Barbera d’Asti made with the grapes from the September 2009 harvest. We will always remember that happy feeling of opening the very first bottle our own wine …
Rosso
Cascina Castagna
Rosso Cascina Castagna is a red wine made from 100 % Barbera grapes from our own vineyard. The wine is aged in new French oak barrels for 18 months before bottling. This gives the wine a more complex flavor and texture. It is a powerful and full-bodied wine, dark red or almost black in color. Intense in taste, with hints of spices, vanilla and toasty aromas. The wine is ready to drink, but can be aged in the bottle for many years. It can develop complexity of aromas and become well-rounded with some time.
Rosso pairs well with game, lamb and sheep, red meat and strong cheeses.
Rossolino
Cascina Castagna
Rossolino Cascina Castagna is a red wine made from 100 % Barbera grapes from our own vineyard. The wine is aged in used French oak barrels for 18 months before bottling, which gives the wine a well-rounded character. It is fruity, round and full-bodied, dark purple in color. The taste is characterized by dark berries, raisins and some vanilla. The wine is ready to drink, but can be aged in the bottle for many years.
Rossolino pairs well with lamb, read meat and cheese.
Segreto
Cascina Castagna
Segreto Cascina Castagna is a red wine made from Nebbiolo grapes. The wine is aged in used French oak barrels for 12 months before bottling. Our first vintage of Segreto wine was bottled in June 2021. The wine is ready to drink, but should preferably be aged in the bottle for some months after bottling to mature. The wine is light red in color, which is typically for Nebbiolo wines. It is rich in tannins, but will have a more well-rounded character with some time.
Segreto pairs well with red meat, lamb and strong cheese.
Barbera d’Asti
Cascina Castagna
Barbera d’Asti Cascina Castagna is a red wine made from 100 % Barbera grapes from our own vineyard. It has been aged for 10 months in steel tanks before bottling. It is dark red in color, with hints of cherries / blackberries, some chocolate and raisins in both aroma and taste. The wine is fresh and fruity, full bodied with good acidity and it is well balanced.
Barbera d’Asti Cascina Castagna pairs with pizza, pasta, cheese, chicken, pork, lamb and white fish.
Rosato
Cascina Castagna
Rosato Cascina Castagna is a rosé wine made from Nebbiolo grapes. The wine is aged for 6 months in steel tanks before bottling. The wine is raspberry red in color, and has some tannins. It is more complex than many other rosé wines, with good structure and taste of red berries.
Rosato is a perfect wine for a pre-meal apéritif, and it also pairs well with chicken, pork, pizza, foccaccia and cheese.
Bianco
Cascina Castagna
Bianco Cascina Castagna is a white wine made from 100 % Chardonnay grapes cultivated here in Calosso. The wine is aged 7 months in steel tanks before bottling. The wine is fresh and fruity, with flavors of green apples, apricots, honey and citrus. It is perfect to enjoy outside on hot summer evenings, and can be drunk alone or with snacks.
Bianco pairs with white meat, fish and shellfish, salads and cheese.
The Cascina Castagna logo
Our logo – the green Y – symbolizes several things. The winery’s name and location, as well as the winery project itself are factors in the logo’s design.
The name of the vineyard, Cascina Castagna, means the “Chestnut farm”. The farm winery is located in a part of Calosso called Castagna. When we bought the farm, there was an 80 year old chestnut tree in the courtyard. The logo thus abstractly represents a chestnut tree.
Another aspect of the logo is Y for Ypsilon. Ypsilon was our “code name” on the vineyard project before we moved to Italy. The Y ‘symbolizes a crossroads where one must choose to follow the narrow or the wide path. The logo is also used in the design of our wine labels, with different colors. Some thinks it looks like a wine glass or a vine. And surely a lot of other things!