Casale Marchese Frascati Superiore 2023

If you don’t know what Frascati is, don’t fret. There’s a perfectly good reason for that. Romans are very picky with their wines and when they love something, they tend to hold onto it and drink it for themselves instead of exporting it overseas! For Romans, that white wine is undoubtedtly Frascati. And for my Italian winemaking friends in Rome, Lazio and the neighboring towns, the Frascati of choice usually comes from Casale Marchese.

Even though Marchese’s Frascati’s can be had for the same price as the others, texturally, I don’t think any come close to this elevated experience. That’s why Luca Maroni gushed over the estate, calling their Frascati ‘the top in the appellation in terms of aromatic clarity, palatal softness and extractive concentration.” He also gave the 2023 release a 94-point score – a spectacular score for what was once considered merely a ‘simple table wine’.