ArPePe Valtellina Superiore Sassella Stella Retica 2017 newsletter-jun24 There was a fire in

There was a fire in the zone in 2023

Incredible

sizzling with acidity the way Furmint wines always do

When Benoit Meyer inherited the 500 year old Chateau in the 1990s

ArPePe Valtellina Superiore Sassella Stella Retica 2017 newsletter-jun24 There was a fire inAnyone who knows us knows that we love Nebbiolo. We think there's an argument that the grape's finest expression isn't in Barolo or Barbaresco, or even in Piedmont! In the far northern corner of Lombardy, the Tellina river flows into Lake Maggiore, but on its way it flows past the impossibly steep, stony vineyards of Valtellina. Sassella is the finest vineyard along the whole valley, and the curiously named ArPePe is the greatest domaine in the