Nebbiolo from the Alps! - Louella Wine Beer & Beverages


Greetings All,
This week we are excited to introduce you to our LIMITED supply of wines from ArPePe!
The Perego family has been growing grapes on the granite terraces of Valtellina since 1860.
They work only with Nebbiolo, or Chiavennasca as it is called in these parts, growing the grapes up to seven hundred meters above sea level on sheer, south-facing, sunlit vines that dig straight into rock. The vines are so far north into the Alps that they are practically in Switzerland and the resulting fruit is intensely mineral.
Production is very much of the old school and labor is intense, with the hills making it very difficult to reach the fruit at all. Everything across their thirteen hectares of vines is done by hand and in the cantina the family exercises a soft touch with famous patience. Favoring long, gentle macerations, the wines are left to rest in large, old chestnut casks until they are ready for release.
The transparency of the grape, the singular landscape, and the Peregos’ gentle hand in the cantina make for wines that are up there with Italy’s greats.
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2020 Rosso di Valtellina $46
As always a Nebbiolo that over delivers in every way. From vines more than fifty years old planted over granite, fruit is sourced from the lower parts of their parcels across the various crus at around four hundred meters above sea level. The grapes undergo a long, gentle maceration in tini, before being pressed off to big old chestnut casks for a year’s rest. Fruit-forward, pretty, and perfumed, this is a perfect introduction to the Mountain Nebbiolo this family does so well.
2017 Grumello $64 (7 bottles available)
The Grumello cru has a little more topsoil above the granite than neighboring vineyards in Sassella and Inferno and tends to produce wines that are a little less angular, a little softer, and fuller. Here, fifty-year-old vines sit between 350 to 500 meters above sea level and the wine spends four months on skins in tini, before being pressed off to old chestnut botti to rest for a year and a half. A generous take on Mountain Nebbiolo that offers great pleasure in its youth.
2017 ‘Sassella’ $64 (7 Bottles available)
Grapes here are taken from vines over fifty years old planted in the rocky upper reaches of the Sassella cru, some 400-550 meters above sea level. ‘Sassella’ in local dialect means rock and this is the part of the valley where the terraces are at their steepest and shallowest. The wine spends four months on its skins in tini and a year in old acacia and chestnut botti before bottling. A vertical, profoundly mineral take on Nebbiolo.
Grab a bottle while you can as supplies are super LIMITED!!
Cheers!
Cam, and the LouElla Team