94 points Falstaff
Radiant ruby red with brightening on the rim. Highly elegant nose, ripe cherry fruit, mint and tobacco and dried thyme. The palate is spicy and powerful, structured, precise, already well integrated tannins in conjunction with a dancing acidity, salty, long finish.

• 100% Chiavennasca (Nebbiolo)
• Sourced from lower slopes of Poggiridenti vineyards at 450 meters
• Southern exposure
• 104-day maceration on the skins
• Aged 15 mo. in 50 HL botti
• 13.5% abv

Winery: The Valtellina Superiore Inferno Fiamme Antiche DOCG speaks to us of granitic rock heated in the sun, soaring up into the air like a flame, filling our nostrils with its heady fragrance. The warmth is the secret of the perfect ripening of the grapes, which come exclusively from steep, sun-drenched slopes in the municipality of Poggiridenti. A Nebbiolo with finely textured tannins and a lively freshness, with a bouquet of Alpine herbs and of the earth it comes from. Its colour recalls a true Maranello red, but the steep Arboleé road, which from the third curve of the “Inferno