Valtellina Superiore Sassella 'Stella Retica', ARPEPE 2012 Bottle:1 Soft red raspberry fruit in

Soft red raspberry fruit in the nose

complex wine keeping in the generous

with their dense and closed weave

it’s gorgeously fragrant on the nose showing ripe strawberry

a hint of mineral

Valtellina Superiore Sassella 'Stella Retica', ARPEPE 2012 Bottle:1 Soft red raspberry fruit inAr. Pe. Pe.short for Arturo Pelizzatti Perego, who relaunched the fam ily winery in 1984harvests chiavennasca (a local name for nebbiolo) from the upper reaches of Valtellinas Sassella subzone. In 2010, its rocky soils and cooling breezes gave a red fruited wine with a chiseled mineral spine. Floral scents and a white pepper spice lift the wines rich flavors of maraschino cherry and blood orange, its cool precision evoking the wines Alpine origins.