Red
Lessona
By Massimo Clerico, Alto Piemonte, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's straight Lessona, from the family's Gorena vineyard, with 24 months of oak ageing. About 3,000 bottles a year.
Tasting notes
Colour: brilliant ruby red with garnet shades, excellent concentration. Nose: intense and enveloping, with medicinal herbs (cinchona and rhubarb), a sweet fragrance of wild strawberry, redcurrant and fine spices. Palate: very intense and persistent, with plenty of grapefruit and an iodine, briny sensation from the unusual sandy soil of marine origin.
Pairs well with
Risotto, caponet alla piemontese (stuffed cabbage rolls with meat), aged cheeses. The English page lists stewed veal cheek, roasts, risotto and aged cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Lessona DOC
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- Vigna Gorena, family-owned on the hills of Lessona
- Soil
- Sandy soil of marine origin
- Vinification
- 12 months in barriques and 12 months in French oak botte (large casks). 13.5% vol.
- Serving temperature
- 18-20°C
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