Samhàin is a Merlot that encapsulates the generosity of the earth and the energy of the Ticino sun with a distinctly "Bourguignon" style. Its distinctive character is perceived in its elegance and depth of expression. Like all my wines, it enhances its characteristics accompanied by food.

What connects me to the Samhain? October 31, is my birth day. 

Il Rosso di Chiara is our flagship wine (emblematic): a Merlot from Ticino that is elevated by 10 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 10 percent Cabernet Franc, varietals that, with the new climate, embellish the wine with structure, depth and persistence, promising excellent aging potential that adds to the immediacy of Merlot. 

Il Rosso di Chiara is the wine that inspired my professional reconversion to making my own wines. It is a wine in which many years of experience as a sommelier and as many as a consultant are concentrated, in the selection of wines that can express a distinct character and personality.

It is a wine that has the great advantage of being able to age for a decade or so but can be appreciated in its flatness from a young age.

Il Bouquet di Chiara is a traditional Merlot to which we paid special attention to make it a more important wine.

Zurich, October 2023

Il Bianco di Chiara is the elegant and complex merlot white that enhances the most elaborate first and second courses of fish. The nose surprises with notes of hawthorn, sweet spices, vanilla, citrus and tropical fruits. But it is in the mouth that it is at its best, with a smooth, round style, a delicate structure and a very persistent finish, where it reveals a great personality. It harmoniously accompanies lake and sea fish cuisine, with Mediterranean-style dressings and/or simply with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, as well as pastas and risottos prepared with fish and seafood.

It is a merlot vinified in white, complemented with some Chardonnay and Sauvignon. It is fresh, dynamic and multi-purpose and evokes the scent of spring flowers. Thanks to its lightness, it is the ideal wine for aperitifs and to accompany convivial cuisine.

Edition no. 3 of my cuvée, made with Duval-Leroy, expresses all the finesse of chardonnay, sourced from the best plots classified Grand Cru in the Côte des Blancs: Avize, Chouilly, Cramant, Le Mesnil sur Oger, Oger. The vintage, just one, 2009, is a concentrate of elegance and richness, which after 10 years on the lees, gives birth to this extra brut champagne of distinct and expressive character.  

It is a Rosé with a charming personality that accompanies aperitifs and enhances seafood cuisine, fragrant oriental dishes, sushi, veal tonnato and typical summer dishes. 

The thousand scents of wine in a glass.

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It all began unknowingly with grandfather's cellar, referred to during childhood as "the forbidden place." A place that in my childhood imagination concealed who knows what secret. Perhaps it was the wine that was the keeper of the secret, because grandfather treated it with care and respect and let it age in that calm place, where it seemed as if time had stood still. 

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