Ar. Pe. Pe. Valtellina Superiore Riserva Sassella Rocce Rosse 2001 3.0Ltr

The 2001 Valtellina Superiore Sassella Riserva Rocce Rosse opens to an elegant and luminous ruby color. This is a stunning wine with a level of elegance and inner finesse that speaks to the impressive potential of the mountainous Valtellina wine region. The feminine grace of the wine is what stands out most of all. The bouquet is finely laced with dried rose petal, wild berry, licorice, cola and pressed violet. In the mouth, the wine shows some graphite and ash-like flavors with very smooth and silky tannins. This wine is almost 15-years-old, but it tastes so much younger.

• Country: Italy
• Region: Lombardy
• Appellation: Valtellina
• Size: 3.0Ltr
• Color: Red
• Alcohol by Vol: 13.0%

Varietal

Nebbiolo

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy’s finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means ‘fog’ in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.