There was a time when the Adda Valley was overridden by ice. A land picked clean, lifeless. Everything was covered by a two-kilometre thick glacier which only let giants emerge: the tops of the mountains. Twenty thousand years later, that place has become the the home of a vine which, however, is still coming to terms with this ancient past. We gave it the name “Sassorosso”.

Slowly, year after year, the glacier withdrew and Nature took back possession of the valley. The rest of the work was done by vine growers with perseverance and sheer brute force, bringing back the earth to a rocky moraine.
Now you know where Vigna Sassorosso put down its roots.

The first impression on the palate is an overall feeling of great elegance. The fact is that Vigna Sassorosso is no ordinary Nebbiolo: it displays balance, harmony and intense fruity notes.

Silky and dense tannins. A remarkable delicacy considering the difficulty of finding nourishment. And then an unexpected burst of flavour, practically savoury, lent by the micro-elements that have been absorbed. And this is what the parent rock has passed on to the vine, and from the vine to the grape and from the grape to the wine.

This is why if the vine had never encountered the rock, we would never have encountered Vigna Sassorosso.