Valtellina Superiore Inferno Riserva Sesto Canto 2009

Grape variety: Nebbiolo/Chiavennasca

Dante's Sixth Canto describes the punishments inflicted on gluttons. The landscape is flailed by eternal rain and Cerberus barks horribly, baring his teeth, but Virgil silences him by filling his mouth with earth.

Here they are in the third circle, just as their vineyard, 450 meters above sea level, is on the third curve of the road known as the “Inferno Circuit”. A circuit that saw Arturo many times racing, in the Valtellina Cup Rally. This was his other great passion and it inspired him to dream of an Inferno Riserva that would celebrate the power, the roaring sound and the discordant growl of a harsh land that leaves one speechless. In 2009 they decided that the time had come to make his dream come true: Valtellina Superiore Inferno Riserva Sesto Canto DOCG.

An amazing vintage, with scratchy tannins, and long aging in chestnut barrels has given us an impressive wine with the powerful feel of a solemn canto.

Vineyard with grass – South Exposure - Altitude 450 m

Harvest: October 18th - Yield 40 hl / ha

Maceration: 49 days in wooden vats 50 hl

Ageing: 5 years in big barrels 50 HL, stainless steel, bottle

Bottles produced: 6.864 (0,75 l) – 150 (1,50 l) – 30 (3,00 l)

L15 276 released from March 2017

Alcohol: 13% vol

Serve at 15°C in a Nebbiolo glass