2020 Amista Nizza (1.5L) 1-Pack in OWC

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Orazio Campoli

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Review Date: 07/2026

It is a rare event to see a true Nizza DOCG hit the shelf at twenty dollars. When you consider that the 2020 Amista is positioned at fifty dollars in every other market, the proposition becomes undeniable. Nizza is Piemonte’s answer to structural Barbera, yet so many modern examples fall victim to syrupy extraction, burying the grape's identity in heavy-handed cellar tricks. The Amista, sourced from the chalk-dominant soils of the Bricco subzone, stands as a direct refutation of that lazy, spoofed-up style. Do you like Cabernet? You need this. Do you like Barbera? Again, you need this. What a deal!

Notes

Amistà began in 2019 when Michele Marsiaj purchased the historic Colombaro estate and brought in Luca D’Attoma to oversee the vineyards and cellar. The property lies on Bricco di Nizza, the ridge extending west from Nizza Monferrato. Its focus is Barbera, with this Nizza DOCG representing the estate’s classic bottling. The 2020 was made entirely from Barbera grown on clay soils at about 340 meters. Harvest took place on October 4 and 5, followed by an extended thirty- to forty-day maceration. The wine then spent twenty months in a combination of concrete, large oak casks and smaller tonneaux, a deliberately patient cellar program for the appellation.