Colombera & Garella Vispavola Rosso 2022 CS20230804 Dark fruit

Dark fruit

Tobacco smoke and toffee dominate the nose and palate

I tasted it next to a bottle I had tasted from Coravin 3 weeks previously

drawing out texture and a savory grip while preserving its citrus-and-stone-fruit core

and eight months on lees in tank yield a mineral-driven finish with lively acidity—authentic natural winemaking from a pioneer

Colombera & Garella Vispavola Rosso 2022 CS20230804 Dark fruitVispavola is Colombera & Garella's only wine without a drop of Nebbiolo 100% Vespolina, the spicy, perfumed indigenous variety of Alto Piemonte. The grapes come from reddish brown porphyritic volcanic sands, the ancient soils of Bramaterra, which give the wine a particularly acidic mineral edge and lift. The result is exactly what the name implies (vispa means lively): a spicy, light, aromatic red with a peppery snap and bright red berry fruit the