Romano Casanova

Romano Casanova’s work at Azienda Vitivinicola Cascina Casanova in Alba, Italy, is built around the vineyard first: low-impact cultivation, close reading of the season, and a disciplined approach to grapes that reward restraint. Nebbiolo, Barbera, and Dolcetto sit at the center of that practice, and in Casanova’s hands they are handled as varieties that ask for judgment, patience, and attention to what the land is able to give. Alba, Italy, supplies the setting, but the craft is rooted in continuity with the region’s agricultural memory: tending vines, preserving the distinctions of place, and making wines that stay close to their origin rather than pushing beyond it.