Sassella Valtellina Superiore DOCG 2015
Aldo Rainoldi
Rainoldi is Valtellina's Nebbiolo. The wines of Rainoldi pay homage to their ancestors through the terracing and carrying on the local viticultural tradition. A range of wines that glorify and honor the local culture, yet strives to innovate and improve, to diversify and offer a selection of high quality wines.
The winery was founded by Giuseppe Rainoldi in 1925, in the suburb of Casacce, near Chiuro in Valtellina, and was named after Giuseppe's son. Valtellina is a mountainous valley that stretches from East to West in Nothern Italy. It is the second largest area in the world for of Nebbiolo. Here, the vine variety Nebbiolo - locally called Chiavennasca - can offer scented, highly elegant and ageable wines.
About the Vineyard
Sassella is the product of the best-known Valtellina Superiore’s subzone. Rich in iron rock with sub-acidic reaction. The wine ages in Slavonian oak barrels for about 20 months, then bottle aged for nine months before release. Grapes: Nebbiolo (Chiavennasca).
Wine Production
Rainoldi strives to produce top quality wine that respects both family tradition, and the environment. Each parcel is harvested based on its altitude in order to maintain the right ripeness, and is vinified separately in a newly installed high-tech winemaking cellar. Due to the extreme steepness of each parcel in Valtellina, grapes are hand harvested and then carried out by helicopter.
Tasting Notes
Delicate aroma, predominantly fruity, spicy and with pot-pourri hints. In the mouth it tastes particularly harmonious, velvet-smooth and lingering.
Food Pairing
This wine matches very well with red meat, game and cheese.
- Vineyard & Production Info
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- Soil composition:
- Iron-rich and Rocky
- Training method:
- Guyot Arch-trained
- Exposure:
- Southern
- Average Vine Age:
- 55 years
- Harvest time:
- early October
- First vintage of this wine:
- 1925
- Bottles produced of this wine:
- 20,600
- Winemaking & Aging
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- Varietal composition:
- 100% Nebbiolo
- Fermentation container:
- Stainless steel tanks
- Maceration technique:
- Punchdown and Pumpovers
- Fining agent:
- Animal based
- Size of aging container:
- 26 hl, 56 hl, 115 hl
- Type of oak:
- Slavonian & French
- Length of aging before bottling:
- 18-20 months
- Length of bottle aging:
- 6-9 months
- Analytical Data
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- Alcohol:
- 12.8 %
- pH level:
- 3.6
- Residual sugar:
- <1 g/L
- Acidity:
- 5.4 g/L
- Dry extract:
- 27.8 g/L
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