Plozza Rosso di Valtellina 2019 campaign-feature and it earns the slot

and it earns the slot

and closely knit velvety tannins melt in your mouth

it's about as far from the Napa Merlot stereotype as you can get: raspberry

a century-old estate based in the Jura village of L'Etoile (so named for the prodigious amount of star-shaped fossils in the soils

Plozza Rosso di Valtellina 2019 campaign-feature and it earns the slotNebbiolo grown on cliffs. Valtellina is the alpine valley in Lombardy where the grape is called Chiavennasca and the vineyards are stacked on stone terraces so steep that everything is done by hand, sometimes by cable. Plozza has been working these slopes since the 1920s, and the Rosso di Valtellina is the house's everyday bottle the one you open on a Tuesday rather than save for a decade. Mountain air keeps it lifted and lean where Barolo goes broad