Rainoldi Rosso di Valtellina DOC 'San Gregorio' 2022 Wine:Wine

Rainoldi Rosso di Valtellina DOC 'San Gregorio' 2022 Wine:WineValtellina in a glass! This is a timeless wine of incredible purity and alpine herb lift, a perfume that runs through all of Rainoldi's wines. So accessible, so fine this is the place. Grapes are grown on south facing terraces between 400 600m, hand harvested and aged for 5 months in large format Slavonian oak. The wine has been in production since 1925. "Very alpine in its presentation of aromatic herbs, red fruits, and some smoke and mineral stuff.

Cherry and a hint of cassis and fine

Pure-fruited

Pimpanela means 'peony' in Occitan but also 'clever woman'

The high altitude and exposure here set their wines apart

yet should age at least another decade

"Beautifully floral

Tempranillo and Garnacha in equal parts

" 93 points

Drink after dinner as a digestivo

the wine remains on it’s fine lees in an outdoor vat before bottling in March

with a core of saline minerals and brisk acids to balance

The taste and smell of Sardinia