A good winemaker always knows how to identify his best barrel in the cellar. Maybe he doesn't know why, but he knows where to go, dropper in hand, to find the best liquid in the cellar on the right occasion. We have decided to dedicate this episode of  Rare Wines to two wines that are entirely collected in a single barrel.

These are well-studied, articulated projects, which start from a thought in the vineyard, to be later dressed with sartorial oak. This is the case of La Botte di Gianni, dedicated to Gianni Masciarelli, a pioneer of Abruzzo viticulture.His wife Marina Cvetic found two 700-litre tonneau in the cellar, purchased by Gianni and that were never used. So she decided to use them for a super selection, of about 900 bottles, for a white and a red.