Fabio Gea - DNAss
Fabio Gea - DNAss
Electric, alive and impossible to box
- Experimental
- Wild
- Juicy
- Zippy
- Type
- Red
- Grapes
- Nebbiolo
- Place
- Piemonte, Italy
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How it tastes
In the glass
Vibrant and nuanced Nebbiolo with ripe red fruit, earthy complexity, and distinctive saline freshness.
Profile
Nose
Cranberry, wild cherry, raspberry, earthy tones, subtle herbal complexity, gentle spice.
Palate
Lively, integrated acidity gives forward energy. Fine Nebbiolo tannins provide structure without excessive weight. Mineral undercurrents and distinct saline-like freshness echo the unique water-influenced maturation.
Finish
Expressive and intriguingly distinctive—bold yet fluid, born of both vineyard and unconventional cellar imagination.
“An experimental expression aged in porcelain and stoneware vessels submerged in water.”
How to serve
Getting the best out of it
How to pair it
This is a light red
Low tannin, lots of freshness: serve it slightly chilled and pair it almost like a white. No cheese, no fried food.
Match
Flavours that echo the wine.
- Mushrooms and earthy vegetables
- Poultry and white meat (roast chicken)
- Pulses (lentils, beans)
- Grilled meaty fish (tuna, salmon)
Contrast
Opposites that make each other better.
- Cured meats (salame, prosciutto)
- Fatty sausages
Careful with
Combinations that flatten the wine.
- Raw fish
- Very hot chilli
- Heavy stews
Terroir & winemaking
From the vineyard to the bottle
Nebbiolo from Bricco di Neive in Piemonte, grown organically on sand, clay and limestone.
- Vines
- 100% organically grown Nebbiolo.
- Soils
- Sand, clay and limestone, shaping a bright yet textural expression.
- Farming
- Organic viticulture with experimental natural winemaking techniques.
- Cellar
- Destemmed fermentation with indigenous yeasts and extended maceration on skins, followed by ageing in custom porcelain and stoneware vessels submerged in a pool of water.
- Additions
- Unfined, unfiltered, no added sulphites.
Where it's from · Piemonte, Italy
BRICCO DI NEIVE
Bricco di Neive is a small cru on the northeastern edge of Barbaresco, sitting at moderate altitude above the Tanaro valley. The soils here are a mix of calcareous marl, clay, and sandstone — a layered, heterogeneous geology that Fabio, with his geologist's eye, reads with unusual precision. It is terrain that gives Nebbiolo both elegance and structural grip, and that shows its complexity slowly, over time.
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The winemaker · Neive, Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy
Fabio Gea
Geologist turned vigneron, making tiny-batch Barbaresco wines that answer to no one
Fabio Gea spent his early career as a geologist — reading soils, mapping rock strata, understanding land from the ground up. That training didn't take him away from wine; it just delayed his return. In 2010, he came back to Neive to take over the small vineyard parcels his grandfather Nòtu had once tended, plots that had been left largely to themselves for years.
“Maybe it is poetry. Or maybe it’s my own mental masturbation. But I wanted to see.”
- Style
- Natural, minimal-intervention, experimental
- Grapes
- Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Barbera, Grignolino
- Farming
- Organic, fully hand-worked, old vines
- Winemaking
- Amphorae, porcelain and glass vessels, native yeasts, no sulfur additions
- Signature
- Former geologist reading terroir from the inside out
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Good to know
Questions we get a lot
Is this a natural wine?
All our wines come from small growers who farm organically or biodynamically and keep intervention in the cellar to a minimum: native yeasts, little or no added sulphites. Every producer has their own approach; the details are in “From the vineyard to the bottle” above.
Why is it a bit cloudy, or is there sediment?
Many of our wines are bottled unfiltered. A light haze or some sediment is natural and harmless: stand the bottle upright for a few hours and pour gently.
How long does it keep once open?
It depends on the wine (see “Once open” above). As a rule: cork back in and keep it in the fridge, reds included.
When will my order arrive?
We ship Tuesday to Saturday, usually right away. In Germany delivery takes 2–3 working days; rates for every country are on our shipping page.
Can I pick up in Berlin?
Yes. Choose pickup at checkout and collect your order at our shop in Berlin.