Proprietà Sperino, `Rosa del Rosa` Rosato
Vintage: 2024
| Vintage | Product Code | Format | Closure | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | SP402A24 | 12 x 75 | Screwcap | Available |
| 2024 | SP402C24 | 12 x 75 | Diam | Available |
Producer
Proprietà Sperino is a splendid,12-hectare hillside estate in the small town of Lessona, near Biella in northern Piemonte. Here, the soils were formed over 300 million years ago by the explosion of a supervolcano, creating sandy soils known as “ori di Lessona (Lessona’s gold), which are rich in minerals, particularly manganese and iron. The soil’s extremely low pH (one of the lowest in the wine world) allows the Nebbiolo vines to take on the marked minerality that Lessona is famed for. The wines of Proprietà Sperino are consistently superb, embracing a Burgundian style that is fragrant yet intense.
The estate was inherited by the De Marchi family (who previously owned the top Chianti Classico estate, Isole e Olena) through their relative, Felice Sperino, a passionate viticulturist and professor in Turin. Since the 1970s, Paolo De Marchi dreamed of revitalising Proprietà Sperino. This dream was eventually realised with the help of his son Luca, who now runs the estate and makes the wines with Paolo’s guidance.
Their ‘Rosa del Rosa’ Rosato is a lovely Nebbiolo rosé with a mineral and savoury character. The ‘Uvaggio’, a blend of Nebbiolo, Vespolina and Croatina, is supple yet grainy with a hint of roses on the finish. The Lessona is majestic. Made solely from Nebbiolo, it is intense yet velvety due to the Lessona soils yielding softer tannins than those found in Nebbiolo from the Langhe. The grapes for the Bramaterra DOC hail from the almost 40-year-old ‘Madonna degli Angeli’ vineyard in Brusnengo, planted on soils rich in granite. Medium-bodied with delicate tannins, the wine displays red fruits, pepper and black tea aromas. The single vineyard `Vigna Covà` is in Castello, in the village of Lessona, on a rounded hill 350 metres above sea level. This wine is silky and rounded with dark fruit and clove notes, alongside ripe tannins and a finely integrated finish. Their top wine, ‘L Franc ******’, is an elegant and beautifully balanced Cabernet Franc.
Vineyards
Grapes for this wine are grown in the Ormeggio, Castagnola and Belvedere vineyards in Lessona, in the Orolungo region, at 290-350 meters above sea level. Soils in Lessona are unique - they have originated from a super-volcano explosion 280 million years ago, which was then covered by the sea before resurfacing with the birth of the Alps. This left marine sands from the Pliocene period (known as “Ori di Lessona”) on an igneous rock subsoil, mixed with more recent glacial sediment. The soils are rich in minerals and trace elements including iron, manganese, aluminium and zinc. The high acidity of the soils make minerals more readily available to the vines. Other grapes are sourced in the 45 to 90-year-old Madonna degli Angeli vineyard in Brusnengo (in the Bramaterra D.O.C) at 350-420 metres above sea level. Soils here are composed of a shallow topsoil of pebbles and clay (pH 5-6) on a base of igneous rock.
Vintage
The 2024 vintage started with a mild and rainy winter. The spring was initially very warm and budding was very even, however May brought a year's worth of rainfall in one month. Despite this, flowering arrived slightly earlier than other recent vintages. The summer continued to be rainy and cold, creating challenging conditions for the vineyards. The reduced yield has created grapes capable of giving extremely bright and fragrant aromatic wines, typical of a cold and late harvest.
Vinification
The grapes were picked by hand into small boxes. Once at the winery, they were carefully sorted on a conveyor belt to ensure that only those in pristine condition made it into the wine. The grapes were then destemmed and gently pressed with around four hours of skin maceration. The wine then spent five months on lees before bottling began in early February. Some further ageing took place in the bottle.
Tasting Notes & Technical Details
This Rosato displays notes of ginger and pine, with the palette opening up a sweetness of orchard fruits, lemon and ripe melon. The juicy acidity helps give this wine it's impressive length.
Alcohol (ABV)
12.5%
Other wines from this producer
Producer | Wine | Product Code | Features | Style | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proprietà Sperino | `Uvaggio` Coste della Sesia Rosso | SP401 | R | Factsheet | |
| Lessona | SP404 | R | Factsheet | ||
| `L Franc ******` | SP405 | R | Factsheet | ||
| `Vigna Covà` Lessona Riserva | SP409 | R | Factsheet | ||
| Bramaterra | SP410 | R |