Ar.Pe.Pe. Valtellina Grumello Riserva Rocca de Piro 2017 Consignment Roda I Blanco comes from

Roda I Blanco comes from old

Romans continued to spread the fruit all over the region around 70 BC

almost no new oak

and bars of the score run across the label

Cote d'Or white from the one village nobody has bid up yet

Ar.Pe.Pe. Valtellina Grumello Riserva Rocca de Piro 2017 Consignment Roda I Blanco comes fromThis 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