The red robin, who graced this wine with its name and image, is a symbol of Lombardy. The wine gets two years in barrel and is a blend of wines from all three of Arpepe's vineyards.
The Grumello wines from Arpepe come from limestone soils at high altitudes, making graceful Nebbiolo that brings high toned floral aromas with weightlessness on the palate.
From a vineyard planted at an altitude of 450m, this wine has a bouquet of cool, fresh-turned forest loam, with a warm minerality and herbaceousness on the palate.
The Rosso di Valtellina is Arpepe's introduction to the perfect Nebbiolo wines of the Alps. Made at the Northern end of Lombardy at high elevations, this is the wine that sees the lightest treatment of oak and lightest aging.
Named for the red granite of the vineyard its fruit is grown in, this particular riserva has all the complexity you could ask for in an Alpine Nebbiolo, with a distinct sanguine quality that sets it apart from Arpepe's other efforts.
The 2007 vintage was awarded BEST ITALIAN WINE OF THE YEAR in 2018 by Gambero Rosso's Vini d'Italia, and 2016 is the best Valtellina vintage in well over thirty years.
Made of fruit from the first vineyard Eugenio and Cinzia planted, this is Nebbiolo as you'd expect from Alba. Complex, structured, and delicious. This one deserves to be savoured.
Named after Eugenio and Cinzia’s daughter, Lucia, the “Lu” Barolo is made of the best clusters from two of their best crus, seeing two years in foudre, six to twelve months in glass-lined cement vats, and another year resting in bottle before release. As herbaceous and complex as you could ask Barolo to be.
This wine is more raspberry patch than raspberry, with all the brambly, stemmy, earthy herbaceousness you could ask of a properly treated Barolo. From a vineyard where the cover-crops are scythed to avoid noise pollution, this wine exemplifies the hands-on diligence of Ferdinando's practices.
