Plozza Rosso di Valtellina 2019 CS20230804 built from 50-60 year old

built from 50-60 year old vines plus additional parcels of 80-year-old bush vines

Thomas Jefferson tasted Nebbiolo in Piedmont in 1787 and described something that sounds nothing like Barolo: light

and aged to bring out its superb quality that has been highly praised by sake drinkers

crushed chalk

The result lives somewhere between blanc de blancs precision and rose generosity

Plozza Rosso di Valtellina 2019 CS20230804 built from 50-60 year oldNebbiolo grown on cliffs. Valtellina is the alpine valley in Lombardy where the grape is called Chiavennasca and the vineyards are stacked on stone terraces so steep that everything is done by hand, sometimes by cable. Plozza has been working these slopes since the 1920s, and the Rosso di Valtellina is the house's everyday bottle the one you open on a Tuesday rather than save for a decade. Mountain air keeps it lifted and lean where Barolo goes broad