The Bocchino estate in La Morra was founded in 1996 by husband and wife duo Eugenio and Cinzia, who inherited the land from Cinzia’s grandparents. Eugenio focuses on the winemaking and Cinzia’s biology background enables her to concentrated on the 100% biodynamically farmed vineyards. Winemaking starts in the vineyards with a “hands off approach to winemaking. Eugenio uses techniques that require little elaboration: wines are never heavily extracted, racking and pump-overs are kept to a minimum, and new oak is never used. Wines are aged in older barrels and cements vats enabling the purity of fruit to shine through. The end result is a wine that expresses the unique terroir of this heralded region. The 2018 “TOM” reveals high tone aromas of ripe red fruit, dried alpine flowers and baking spice. The palate reaffirms the noise with  juicy cherry fruit with hints of dried cranberry. Under this brimming fruit core is fragrant violets, licorice, juniper berries and tilled earth. This zippy, lip-smacking effort cries out for your favorite pasta with a tomato based sauce or throw in some meat with a “Pasta Sugo” pairing. “Delizioso”!