Valtellina Superiore Riserva Grumello 'Buon Consiglio' Ar.Pe.Pe. 2016

The Grumello Riserva Buon Consiglio Ar.Pe.Pe is produced in the most suitable area of Grumello. To give the name to this version of Nebbiolo from Valtellina region, growing north-east of Sondrio, is the namesake castle, a splendid medieval fortress overlooking the underlying valley and surrounded by beautiful terraces. Only this type of landscape architecture has allowed man to cultivate the vine in Valtellina, where the microclimate of the Rhaetian Alps to define it as one of the major wine regions of northern Italy.

Here, the family Pellizzati Perego produces wine for five generations and now becomes a model for other wine producers in the area. The expert Ar.Pe.Pe winery has some of the most suitable terroir in Valtellina. Its staff uses a wise combination of tradition and innovation, without forgetting the improvements that modernity has brought in the world of wine wisely linking them to the traditional wisdom that sees in the complexity of the landscape an essential component for the creation of great Ar.Pe.Pe wines. The Grumello Riserva Buon Consiglio arises from this clever blend of "past and future" creating one of the best expressions of Chiavennasca, as it is called the Nebbiolo here.

In the glass of Grumello Riserva Buon Consiglio the Nebbiolo is complex and intriguing with its bouquet. It is rich of hints of alpine flowers and sweet fruits that elegantly accompany the tasting. We will suddenly discover its real character: a soul dominated by an unmistakable aristocratic grace, well balanced by a marvelous minerality that gives a fine effect on the palate. The Grumello Riserva Buon Consiglio expresses in a while the wealth of fascinating and inaccessible mountain landscape, whose traits are made from soft and mellow from the refined chiavennasca transformed by Ar.Pe.Pe in wonderful red wine, able to reveal "the secret of harmony".