Colombera & Garella Lessona Pizzaguerra 2019 CS20231023 freshness from the youngest base

freshness from the youngest base

Works extremely well for a classic rye Manhattan or in a simple old fashioned

The sip is long and supported by a beautiful acidity

Distilled in small batches in copper from a Piedmont-made organic wheat base

including smoked salmon

Colombera & Garella Lessona Pizzaguerra 2019 CS20231023 freshness from the youngest baseColombera & Garella is one of Alto Piemonte's very best producers Cristiano Garella's wines are picture perfect representations of these varied northern terroirs, organically farmed and naturally made. Lessona Pizzaguerra is their top single vineyard cuve, a Nebbiolo based wine from a high site of sandy maritime soils layered over crystal rich igneous subsoils a geology unlike anywhere else in Piedmont. The result has a kind of pointillist feel: