Cascina Gentile

Cascina Gentile

 – Italy

Since 2009, Daniele Oddone has been running the estate. Right from the start, he switched to organic farming — ethically motivated and to protect everyone’s health.

They live in the vineyards and work them every day, so the choice was obvious.
The winery sits right on the border between the Gavi and Ovada DOCG zones, which is why their Cortese white is named Confine (border/boundary). Ovada is the real homeland of Dolcetto. Cascina Gentile also grows Barbera — Monferrato literally means “iron mountain,” so the soils here are iron-rich and red, giving Barbera a leaner, more taut profile than the broader, rounder style you get from the chalkier soils in Asti.
In 2014, Daniele bought a few hectares of vineyards in the Tortona hills, and in 2015 the first harvest of Derthona Timorasso came in. Today Cascina Gentile farms 11 hectares and produces about 35,000 bottles a year, all naturally. No additives in fermentation, only native yeasts, no filtration, and just a small touch of SO2 on the Cortese to block malolactic fermentation.