Red
Spanna
By Massimo Clerico, Alto Piemonte, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's Coste della Sesia Nebbiolo, aged 12 months in French oak barriques. About 2,500 bottles a year.
Tasting notes
Colour: garnet red of good intensity and transparency, lively and warm, drawing dense regular arches in the glass. Nose: subtle and complex, fruity with small red fruits (wild strawberry, gentian, star anise, white currant), floral (violet) and spicy (liquorice, nutmeg, black pepper). Palate: intense, tense and juicy, with citrus returns; savoury, fine, very intense and persistent.
Pairs well with
Carne cruda all'albese (Alba-style raw beef), polenta with sauteed porcini mushrooms.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Coste della Sesia DOC Nebbiolo
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- Family-owned vineyards on the hills of Lessona
- Vinification
- 12 months in French oak barriques. 13.5% vol.
- Serving temperature
- 18-20°C
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