An unpretentious wine with real elegance
The vigour has faded to reveal a lovely complexity of mature red fruit
The vines are Guyot* trained and yield around 8 tons per hectare
it is totally at home in these alluvial hills where it is cultivated on pergolas that span the ancient terraces
where the aspect of the slopes provides the vines with excellent exposure to the sun
The Alto Piemonte Nebbiolo Case Grape _Cococciola An unpretentious wine with realThis east west strip below the Monte Rosa was once a foundry for great Nebbiolo wine; sales of Spanna (the local name for Nebbiolo) far exceeded those of Barolo, Lessona was even honoured to toast the unification of Italy in 1870. Wars, weather and industry turned vineyard to forest and, whilst we are witnessing the rise of the legendary Nebbiolo towns of Gattinara, Ghemme, Boca, Lessona, Bramaterra and Valdengo, numbers are unlikely to ever reach