Case Corini
Lorenzo Corino has managed to represent a rare figure of a winemaker: the link between the naturalness of the "old-style" vinifications and the more technical aspect of contemporary quality processing. Born in 1947 and a sixth-generation member of a family of winemakers in Monferrato, he has been able to enhance the legacy of his ancestors' traditions through a constant and always critical commitment to the estate. Graduating in Agricultural Sciences in 1972, he has spent his entire life between the vineyard and the scientific field, holding roles as a researcher, experimenter, and director of the Institute for Viticulture in Conegliano at the Asti location, in addition to being the author of a long series of publications. Case Corini was the toponym of the area where Biagio Corino, in the early 1800s, carried out his activities as a farmer, nurseryman, and carpenter: it will be the great-grandson Vincenzo who will bring the winery's productions to a very high level, starting from 1901.
Case Corini is a craft reality today led by Luisa and Guido, the children of Lorenzo Corino, based in the historic house at Strada San Martino 8 in Costigliole d’Asti. The vineyards are managed according to a true Metodo Corino, consisting of cultural and ethical choices developed over the years: the soil is understood as a living organism populated by varieties cultivated locally, capable of transferring original values to the wine, and by old vines able to preserve proven genetic typicities. The 6 hectares of vines alternate with arable land, fallow fields, and forest, in the landscape between the Langhe and Monferrato, spread at altitudes ranging from 250 to 300 meters and characterized by soils composed of marls and sands. Barla is a plot planted in 1928 with different biotypes of Barbera trained as bush vines and on trellises, exposed to the southeast; Achille and Colletto are trellis plantings from 1950, exposed to the southwest and with a majority of Barbera and Nebbiolo; Bricco, finally, represents the experimental vineyard planted in 1954, where soil behaviors are verified and indigenous varieties are compared with some international ones: Barbera, Freisa, Balsamina, Uvalino, Cabernet, Nebbiolo.
Case Corini pursues a non-interventionist vinification, in which no additives or sulfur are used, nor invasive manipulations. The production size is extremely limited, around 450 hectoliters per year, derived from absolutely traditional processes: long macerations on the skins and slow spontaneous fermentations, which can take place over a period of up to 2 months and are interspersed with periodic pump-overs. Periodic racking allows for monitoring the wine during its aging in wooden barrels over a usual period of 3 years.
Lorenzo Corino has managed to represent a rare figure of a winemaker: the link between the naturalness of the "old-style" vinifications and the more technical aspect of contemporary quality processing. Born in 1947 and a sixth-generation member of a family of winemakers in Monferrato, he has been able to enhance the legacy of his ancestors' traditions through a constant and always critical commitment to the estate. Graduating in Agricultural Sciences in 1972, he has spent his entire life between the vineyard and the scientific field, holding roles as a researcher, experimenter, and director of the Institute for Viticulture in Conegliano at the Asti location, in addition to being the author of a long series of publications. Case Corini was the toponym of the area where Biagio Corino, in the early 1800s, carried out his activities as a farmer, nurseryman, and carpenter: it will be the great-grandson Vincenzo who will bring the winery's productions to a very high level, starting from 1901.
Case Corini is a craft reality today led by Luisa and Guido, the children of Lorenzo Corino, based in the historic house at Strada San Martino 8 in Costigliole d’Asti. The vineyards are managed according to a true Metodo Corino, consisting of cultural and ethical choices developed over the years: the soil is understood as a living organism populated by varieties cultivated locally, capable of transferring original values to the wine, and by old vines able to preserve proven genetic typicities. The 6 hectares of vines alternate with arable land, fallow fields, and forest, in the landscape between the Langhe and Monferrato, spread at altitudes ranging from 250 to 300 meters and characterized by soils composed of marls and sands. Barla is a plot planted in 1928 with different biotypes of Barbera trained as bush vines and on trellises, exposed to the southeast; Achille and Colletto are trellis plantings from 1950, exposed to the southwest and with a majority of Barbera and Nebbiolo; Bricco, finally, represents the experimental vineyard planted in 1954, where soil behaviors are verified and indigenous varieties are compared with some international ones: Barbera, Freisa, Balsamina, Uvalino, Cabernet, Nebbiolo.
Case Corini pursues a non-interventionist vinification, in which no additives or sulfur are used, nor invasive manipulations. The production size is extremely limited, around 450 hectoliters per year, derived from absolutely traditional processes: long macerations on the skins and slow spontaneous fermentations, which can take place over a period of up to 2 months and are interspersed with periodic pump-overs. Periodic racking allows for monitoring the wine during its aging in wooden barrels over a usual period of 3 years.
