2018 Terrazzi Alti Sassella Valtellina Superiore DOCG Lombardy, Italy Giuseppe Mascarello It pours golden-amber and opens

It pours golden-amber and opens with sunny citrus and alpine herbs before a measured bitter snap and cooling mint/licorice finish

blended with 18% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot from neighboring single-acre vineyards -- fermented with wild

so the Palhete wines provided the only trustworthy hydration at the time

Fruit came from 17-year-old vines at Keisha's Vineyard in The Eola-Amity Hills and 3 7-year-old vines at Sophie's Vineyard in the Umpqua Valley

2018 Terrazzi Alti Sassella Valtellina Superiore DOCG Lombardy, Italy Giuseppe Mascarello It pours golden-amber and opensFrom a tiny plot of impeccably farmed vines in Sassella. Aged for 12 months in traditional, old botti.