Proprieta Sperino Rosa del Rosa Rosato 2024

Proprieta Sperino Rosa del Rosa Rosato

Region: Coste della Sesia, Piemonte, Italy

Vintage: 2024

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Nebbiolo

ABV: 13%

This Rosato is a vibrant pink in colour. The attractive nose boasts distinct aromas of white peach and wild strawberries. On the palate, the wine is dry with a savoury, mineral character and a mouth-filling core of ripe orchard fruit, leading to a clean, fresh finish.

Grapes for this wine are grown in the Ormeggio, Castagnola and Belvedere vineyards in Lessona, in the Orolungo region, at 290-350 meters above sea level. Soils in Lessona are unique - they have originated from a super-volcano explosion 280 million years ago, which was then covered by the sea before resurfacing with the birth of the Alps. This left marine sands from the Pliocene period (known as “Ori di Lessona”) on an igneous rock subsoil, mixed with more recent glacial sediment. The soils are rich in minerals and trace elements including iron, manganese, aluminium and zinc. The high acidity of the soils make minerals more readily available to the vines. Other grapes are sourced in the 45 to 90-year-old Madonna degli Angeli vineyard in Brusnengo (in the Bramaterra D.O.C) at 350-420 metres above sea level. Soils here are composed of a shallow topsoil of pebbles and clay (pH 5-6) on a base of igneous rock.

Proprietà Sperino is a splendid,12-hectare hillside estate in the small town of Lessona, near Biella in northern Piemonte. Here, the soils were formed over 300 million years ago by the explosion of a supervolcano, creating sandy soils known as “ori di Lessona (Lessona’s gold), which are rich in minerals, particularly manganese and iron. The soil’s extremely low pH (one of the lowest in the wine world) allows the Nebbiolo vines to take on the marked minerality that Lessona is famed for. The wines of Proprietà Sperino are consistently superb, embracing a Burgundian style that is fragrant yet intense.