Plozza Rosso di Valtellina 2019 campaign-feature quite saline in character

quite saline in character

with an uncanny eye for vineyards (celebrated or completely unknown) and the skill to coax out their very best

and closely knit velvety tannins melt in your mouth

and it earns the slot

it's about as far from the Napa Merlot stereotype as you can get: raspberry

Plozza Rosso di Valtellina 2019 campaign-feature quite saline in characterNebbiolo 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