Grumello
Cantina Ar.Pe.Pe.
Riserva Sant' Antonio Grumello Valtellina Superiore Nebbiolo 2009
Pizzo Coca
Riserva Valtellina Superiore Grumello Nebbiolo 2013
Powerful for a Valtellina, and a little on the austere side. Mature nose shows chokecherry and leather, mahogany scents, along with lots of crushed rock. Intense but lean in the mouth, with zingy acidity and zippy crisp cherry and lots of minerality. Still a bit of puckery tannin. My brother brought this back from Italy a few years ago for me. Grazie! — 3 years ago
Cantina Ar.Pe.Pe.
Ultimi Raggi Sassella Valtellina Superiore Nebbiolo 2009
Notably firmer and more deeply pitched than the Grumello. Sassella all the way from now on — 10 months ago
Cantina Ar.Pe.Pe.
Stella Retica Riserva Sassella Valtellina Superiore Nebbiolo 2006
Tonight the Grumello was better, but still this was very good. More firm and structured than the Grumello, but lacked the aromatics that I was hoping for! — 3 years ago
Cantina Ar.Pe.Pe.
Riserva Rocca de Piro Grumello Valtellina Superiore Nebbiolo 2017
Tart cherry and perhaps strawberry. Some deeper notes, but not too strong. Light color. More fruit on the nose than in the mouth. — 23 days ago
Luca Faccinelli
Tell Grumello Valtellina Superiore Nebbiolo 2017
Beautiful aromatics with light (dried?) dusty cherries, wilted flowers, a hint of rose. Quite light, quite aetheric. So enticing!
Light bodied on the palate and very juicy. A present, fine tannic frame, filled with light cherry, a hint of red fruits, a light herby note. So poised & elegant and really delicious! — 2 years ago
Tom Casagrande
Amazingly tight for a 16-year old wine. The acids are smell-able on the nose, zinging along tart, macerated wild cherry fruit and glacier-crushed rock fragments. (OK, maybe I’m making up the part about how the crushed rocks were created.) In the mouth it’s deep but the acids rip this along on the palate like a whitewater canoe ride. Really really unique and good. — 23 days ago