Marcel Zanolari rarely takes the easy way. With Marcel, everything is an adventure. When we visited him in the fall of 2022, he was tending over 115 varieties of vines in Northern Italy’s Valtellina Valley. 100 of those varieties were...
Hotel Campelli and view of Sondrio in Valtellina Italy Marcel Zanolari met us in front of the Hotel Campelli in Moia, which overlooks Sondrio at the center of Valtellina. This is the Northern part of Lombardia, Italy, a valley between...
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La Perla di Marco Triacca North of Milan, past Lake Como, tucked between the Orobie and Rhaetian Alps, you find the Valtellina Valley. As you drive east through the valley, you pass Sondrio at the center, watching the steep vineyards...
Cristina Scarpellini likes a challenge. She came to Valtellina, an outsider, a lawyer from Milan, and knew she wouldn’t leave. This valley had her under its spell. Starting with a 1-hectare vineyard, she created her winery Tenuta Scerscé, the name...
Isabella Pelizzatti Perego was one of the first people to greet us in Valtellina. Her family’s history in wine dates back to the 1860s when Isabella’s great-great-grandfather Giovanni founded Pelizzatti winery. But tragedy does not discriminate, and it fell upon...
1881 – that’s the year that Casa Vinicola Fratelli Bettini got started. They are one of the oldest of Valtellina’s wine companies. Today the 5th generation is running the winery while the 6th generation learns the ropes. The winery is...
Aldo Rainoldi is a small winery in Northern Italy’s Valtellina wine Region. Aldo is a name that is important in the Rainoldi family. In the 1920s, Aldo Rainoldi was a wine merchant in Valtellina. Fast forward a generation or two,...
Davide Fasolini’s energy is palpable. Tall with ginger hair, a beard, and glasses that seem held up by the ends of his smile, you can feel his energy, excitement, and passion as he waits to tell you about his wines. ...
The name La Spia comes from a ridge behind the family vineyard in Sassella. This ridge was called “The Spy” as it was a strategic military observation point during military clashes. Owned by the Rigamonti family since the 1960s, Michele...
Involt Agnelot paints outside the box when it comes to Valtellina wines. While their wines are based on Nebbiolo, they don’t adhere to DOC or DOCG guidelines, instead labeling their wines Alpi Retiche IGT, which is the Indicazione Geografica Tipica...
Sandro Fay of the Valgella sub-zone of Valtellina, Italy Sandro Fay began in 1971 when Sandro redeveloped the small vineyard that his family owned in Teglio in the Valgella sub-zone. Today his children, Marco and Elena, manage the vineyards. Elena...
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