Description
Somehow, somewhere, someone got the idea that two towns called Barolo and Barbaresco represented the pinnacle of Nebbiolo. But don't sleep on Valtellina, which sits along Italy's border with Switzerland, snaking through the Alpine range. It's one of Italy's most dramatic wine landscapes, a perfect setting for quintessential mountain wine: mineral rich run-off, granite soils, diurnal shifts in the east-west ranging valley providing spice, bramble, and structure, and a light body that belies the tremendous concentration these hardworking vines offer. Faccinelli's fresh, approachable 'Ortensio Lando' is all aromatic wild strawberries, graphite, hibiscus, and a delicate but firm tannic structure. Perfect for your Alpine après ski.