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“Nettare” Rosso di Valtellina DOC 2022
Cristina Scarpellini's remarkable entry-level wine opens compactly with aromas of wild berries, violets, gravel, liquorice and some flint. Bright and straightforward on the palate, with alpine strawberry, star anise and a hint of botanical herbs. Its lively acidity and gripping tannins make it a perfect accompaniment to food. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 6 months cement tank
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 12,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 16‑18 °C
- Storage potential: 2030+
- Closure: Diam
- Food recommendations
starters, white meat, young cheese - Total extract: 27,95 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,74 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,15 g/l
- Sulfite: 66 mg/l
- pH value: 3,48
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Essenza” Valtellina Superiore DOCG 2019
Essenza is a classic Valtellina Superiore that draws its fruit from the terraced high mountain vineyards in one of the northernmost corners of Italy. Ruby red with garnet-coloured inclusions. Wonderful aromas of dried strawberries, mushrooms and flowers that open up into pure fruit. It is medium-bodied on the palate with appealing depth and intensity. The fine and complex tannins are polished and flattering. Essenza magically balances power and elegance, gaining much of its straightforwardness and focus from the lingering mineral notes of crushed slate or granite that add salty notes to the finish. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 27 months 50 hl tonneau
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 13,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2032+
- Closure: natural corks
- Food recommendations
pizzocheri, white meat, fatty fish, mature cheese - Total extract: 28,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,45 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,28 g/l
- Sulfite: 66 mg/l
- pH value: 3,47
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Incanto” Sassella Valtellina Superiore DOCG 2020
This smooth and exceptionally polished Valtellina Superiore comes from Sassella, one of the most famous villages in the Valtellina appellation on the north bank of the River Adda. Bright ruby red in colour. Camphor, wild roses, wild berries and hints of graphite and vanilla are the main characters in this fragrant red wine. Straightforward and elegantly structured, it reveals red cherry, pomegranate and liquorice on the palate, accompanied by present but fine tannins. The lively acidity provides the necessary drive, including further ageing potential. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 27 months 50 hl tonneau
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 13,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2034+
- Closure: natural corks
- Food recommendations
game and roasts, primi piatti with sauces, mature hard cheese - Total extract: 28,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,78 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,25 g/l
- Sulfite: 63 mg/l
- pH value: 3,45
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Flammante” Inferno Valtellina Superiore DOCG 2020
This wine is literally on fire. Flammante comes from the Inferno (hell), an area where the fruit of this fiery, warm and full-bodied wine comes from the hardness of the Rhaetian rock. With all the vigour in every sip, it is a wine of extreme grace and elegance that makes you think and marvel. Ruby red colour tending towards garnet. A beguiling bouquet of Mediterranean spices and herbs, then strawberry, wild rose, dried earth and minerals. Complex and full of character on the palate with a beautiful fruit centre and animating freshness that makes you long for the next glass. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 14 months barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 13,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2035+
- Closure: natural corks
- Food recommendations
game and roasts, primi piatti with sauces, mature hard cheese - Total extract: 28,40 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,15 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,30 g/l
- Sulfite: 71 mg/l
- pH value: 3,52
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Cristina Scarpellini” Valgella Valtellina Superiore Riserva DOCG 2019
"This is a project with which I am still celebrating the beginning of my adventure as a winemaker, which is why this Riserva bears my name. Valgella is the region where my exciting journey began, and this wine not only bears my signature, but also pays tribute to the steep slopes from which we have wrested its fruit with its elegant shyness."
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 12 months barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 13,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2037+
- Closure: natural corks
- Food recommendations
game and roasts, feathered game with sauce, fatty fish - Total extract: 27,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,58 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,22 g/l
- Sulfite: 66 mg/l
- pH value: 3,45
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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“Infinito” Sforzato di Valtellina DOCG 2018
The grapes for the most classic red wine of the Valtellina are air-dried by the alpine winds for about 2 months after the harvest. Infinito shows a fresh, almost mentholated side of the Nebbiolo grape that adds lift and brightness to the bouquet. Immediately after these spicy herbal notes, the wine dives into the darker fruit of blackcurrant, wild plum and pressed rose. This wine offers an exciting and unexpected array of flavours that highlight its unique personality, which can only be achieved in this form with the Nebbiolo grape in the Italian Alps. As the wine settles on the palate, there is even a subtle sweetness that comes from the appassimento process, rounding it out to a distinctive classic. Be sure to aerate before enjoying! SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 12 months tonneau
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 15,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2036+
- Closure: natural corks
- Food recommendations
game and roasts, heavy sauces - Total extract: > 30,00 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,56 g/l
- Residual sugar: 1,65 g/l
- Sulfite: 92 mg/l
- pH value: 3,55
- Allergens
contains sulphites
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In the very north of Italy, on the border with Switzerland, is one of Italy's most extreme wine regions. The Valtellina is characterized by steep, winding slopes and dizzyingly high vineyards, which are cultivated by only about 50 winegrowers. Among them are absolute career changers like Cristina Scarpellini. The international business lawyer from Bergamo discovered her passion for wine production in Valtellina by chance thanks to a client in 2008 and made a name for herself in the wine world.
Considering the difficulties associated with viticulture, she could not have chosen a more labor-intensive area to do so. In fact, cultivation in Valtellina is considered heroic, especially since the sweaty manual work in the vineyard takes about ten times as much time (about 1,500 working hours/ha/year) as the vast vineyards in the plain, which can be cultivated by machine. To this, the winemaker laughingly comments in conversation, "If it had been a simple economic investment, I probably wouldn't be here either."
Another factor is the demanding nature of the native Nebbiolo grape variety. In Valtellina, they have always farmed the grape of the famous Barolo and Barbaresco wines. Cristina explains that here the Nebbiolo variety is called Chiavennasca and produces a refreshingly light style of wine. And yet, despite the alpine location, such Nebbiolo wines can delight with depth of flavor and enormous ripening potential, largely due to the sandy-loam soil structure in the vineyard and the remarkable 1,900 hours of sunshine per year.
Cristina's modernly designed winery covers six hectares of vineyards and is located a few minutes from the center of the village of Tirano. The name Tenuta Scerscé derives from the traditional Bidente hoe, the so-called "Sciarscél", used for small interventions in the soil around the shoots and roots of the vines. Since 2017, she has been working with renowned oenologist Attilio Pagli on her small but fine wine range, which includes the juicy Valtellina Rosso "Nettare" as well as refined single-vineyard wines, a highly awarded Riserva and the intense Sforzato di Valtellina DOCG made from dried grapes.
Thus, Tenuta Scerscé's Nebbiolo wines from Valtellina tend to be somewhat lighter and less tannic than their Piedmont counterparts. What the wines lack in power, they make up for in edgy body. So it can also be said without a doubt that Cristina is one of those winemakers who have been redefining the wines of Valtellina for many years with true dedication and will cause a sensation not only today. SUPERIORE.DE
Facts
- Year of foundation: 2008
- Owner: Cristina Scarpellini
- Oenologist: Attilio Pagli
- Annual production: approx. 40,000 bottles
- Vineyard area: approx. 6 hectares
- Natural viticulture