Proprieta Sperino Vigna Cova Lessona Reserva 2015

Proprieta Sperino Vigna Cova Lessona Reserva

Region: Lessona, Piemonte, Italy

Vintage: 2015

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Nebbiolo

ABV: 14%

This wine is bright ruby in colour. There are aromas of red fruits, raspberry and cranberry complemented by notes of liquorice and spice. The palate is silky and rounded with flavours of dark fruit, clove and a slight herbaceous note with ripe tannins and a smooth finish.

The Covà vineyard is located in Castello, in the village of Lessona. This vineyard sits on a rounded hill with a south-west facing aspect. It is a high altitude vineyard, sitting 350 metres above sea level. Soils are comprised of marine sands from the pliocene period on indigenous rock, combined with more recent glacial sediment. It is acid rich (pH 4.5-5.5) with plentiful minerals and elements including iron, manganese, aluminum and zinc. The vineyards are trained with Guyot pruning system.

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.