Nizza
17 cantine e 19 vini. Nizza is Barbera at its most ambitious. Its zone is eighteen communes of the province of Asti around Nizza Monferrato — Agliano Terme, Belveglio, Bruno, Calamandrana, Castel Boglione, Castelnuovo Belbo, Castelnuovo Calcea, Castel Rocchero, Cortiglione, Incisa Scapaccino, Moasca, Mombaruzzo, Mombercelli, Nizza Monferrato itself, Rocchetta Palafea, San Marzano Oliveto, Vaglio Serra and Vinchio — long held to be the heart of Barbera country. The hills are low, mostly between 150 and 400 metres, in a temperate to warm climate with little wind and about 700 mm of rain. Continua a leggere ↓
Cantine che producono Nizza
Prunotto Barolo · 25 viniVigna Colonnello Barolo Riserva Bussia DOCG
Oddero Barolo · 15 vini1 Tre Bicchieri 2014 · Barolo DOCG
Vite ColteMonferrato · 37 vini18 premi DWWA, l’ultimo nel 2026 · Barbera d’Asti Superiore La Luna e i Falò DOCG
Michele ChiarloBarolo · 34 vini10 Tre Bicchieri, l’ultimo nel 2026 · Barolo Cerequio
Pico MaccarioAsti · 13 vini6 Tre Bicchieri, l’ultimo nel 2026 · Barbera d’Asti Lavignone DOCG
Mauro SebasteBarolo · 19 vini2 premi DWWA, l’ultimo nel 2026 · Trèsüri Barolo DOCG
Giovanni VibertiBarolo · 22 vini4 premi DWWA, l’ultimo nel 2024 · La Gemella • Barbera d’Alba
Tenuta GarettoBarbera d’Asti · 6 viniFavà Nizza DOCG
BersanoBarolo · 26 vini6 premi DWWA, l’ultimo nel 2026 · CostalungaMalgraBarbera d’Asti · 16 viniCugnexio Moscato d’Asti DOCGVinchio Vaglio Serra53 vini11 premi DWWA, l’ultimo nel 2026 · Barbera d'Asti Vigne Vecchie 50° DOCGCossetti27 vini2 Tre Bicchieri, l’ultimo nel 2026 · Nizza Crivelletto DOCGVini di Nizza
Nizza in breve
The vineyards must be on hillsides facing between south-east and south-west, never on valley floors or damp ground, on stratified clay-sand marls and sandstones — the old sea floor of the Piedmontese Tertiary basin. Vines are trained on upright trellises, pruned to Guyot or low spurred cordon, and picked only by hand.
The wine is 100 per cent Barbera, cropped at no more than seven tonnes a hectare, or 6.3 for a single named vigna. It ages at least 18 months from the first of January after the harvest, six of them in wood; a Riserva at least 30, with twelve in wood. Nizza began as a subzone of Barbera d'Asti and became a DOCG of its own in 2014.