Proprieta Sperino Bramaterra 2018
Proprieta Sperino Bramaterra
Region: Lessona, Piemonte, Italy
Vintage: 2018
Bottle size: 75cl
Grape: 70% Nebbiolo 15% Vespolina 5% Croatina
ABV: 14%
This wine is vibrant ruby in colour. On the nose are aromas of red fruits, pepper and black tea. The palate has an enveloping mouthfeel with hints of small red berries, cranberries and some oak-derived spice. It is medium-bodied with delicate tannins which led to a smooth and luxurious finish.
In 2004 Sperino had purchased from Adriano Sartor the vineyards of one of the most beautiful and historic locations in Bramaterra, the Madonna degli Angeli. It was 1 hectare of old vineyard, planted in the 60s and still in splendid shape; over the years, another 2 hectares have been added to this. It is an extreme, difficult area with outcropping granite and porphyry and a huge amount of metal, especially iron. Finally, in 2018 the grapes for Bramaterra were ready to deliver a single vineyard wine.The granites of Bramaterra deliver to the wine the typical sapidity of the sands of Lessona with a more lively minerality.
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.
The estate was inherited by the De Marchi family (of the top Chianti Classico estate, Isole e Olena) through their relative, Felice Sperino, a passionate viticulturist and professor in Turin. Since the 1970s, Paolo De Marchi dreamed of revitalising Proprietà Sperino. This dream was eventually realised with the help of his son Luca, who now runs the estate and makes the wines with Paolo’s guidance.