Valtellina Superiore Riserva Sassella 'Ultimi Raggi', ARPEPE 2006 Bottle:1 Medium bodied with light floral

Medium bodied with light floral aromas

Swirl and sniff fragrant lemon blossom

very clean wine

It's seductive and quite elegant in that the fruit tends more to the red end of the spectrum than the black

Valtellina Superiore Riserva Sassella 'Ultimi Raggi', ARPEPE 2006 Bottle:1 Medium bodied with light floralThe Peregos believe that a true expression of grape, place and vintage is lost when one dries grapes away from the vineyard. Instead they harvest their fruit late, allowing the grapes to dry on the plant. The wine spends thirty days on skins in tini and four years in huge old chestnut casks and is impossibly deep full of warm, sweet fruit, it screams for a good hunk of cheese from the surrounding hills.