Ar.Pe.Pe. Valtellina Grumello Riserva Rocca de Piro 2017 seminar-template with a longer drinking window

with a longer drinking window still ahead

savory side

The 2024 comes entirely from the estate at Fort Ross-Seaview

the estate sits on three Grosse Lage monopole sites managed by the sixth-generation Von Schubert family

Estournelles Saint-Jacques sits high on the slope above Lavaux Saint-Jacques

Ar.Pe.Pe. Valtellina Grumello Riserva Rocca de Piro 2017 seminar-template with a longer drinking windowThis is Nebbiolo grown in the Alps, on terraces so steep that everything is done by hand. Ar. Pe. Pe. is Valtellina's standard bearer for tradition, and Rocca de Piro comes from old vines, some pushing a century, in the Grumello cru high above the valley floor at 350 to 500 meters. It sees a marathon maceration and long, patient aging in big neutral casks before release, all in service of finesse over force. Riserva Nebbiolo like this is lighter on