Description
Lessona’s soil, with its ancient marine sands, restores finesse and a delicate touch to the wines from this corner of Piedmont. This wine is made from the best grapes selected from our parcels of land in Lessona.
Awards
Serve at:
16 - 18 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
Decanting time:
1 hour

Producer
Tenute Sella
From this winery
- Start up year: 1671
- Oenologist: Riccardo Giovannini
- Bottles produced: 60.000
- Hectares: 23
The soft seat is one of the oldest wineries in business today. The family produces wine Lessona Sella, from mid-600. Even today the company maintains its original size craft, historically devoted to small-scale quality products. The wines produced from the approximately 20 ha of vineyards, of which about 80,000 bottles a year. winemaking techniques and the same technology found in the cellar, are constantly updated, always check the capacity to ensure the best results in terms of clean, pleasant aroma and definition of the wines. According to the philosophy Sella the word "classic " means in full compliance with, and indeed the enhancement of the most authentic of the terroir and grape varieties, preferring non-invasive work, such as to lose touch with the essence and the uniqueness of these wines.
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Meat
Game
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork
Name | Tenute Sella Lessona 2019 |
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Type | Red green still |
Denomination | Lessona DOC |
Vintage | 2019 |
Size | 0,75 l |
Alcohol content | 13.5% by volume |
Grape varieties | 85% Nebbiolo, 15% Vespolina |
Country | Italy |
Region | Piedmont |
Vendor | Tenute Sella |
Origin | High Piedmont, in the historic hills of the Lessona municipality |
Climate | Altitude: 300 m. a.s.l. Exposure: Southeast / Southwest. |
Soil composition | Soils with an acid ph made up of orange-yellow marine sands. |
Cultivation system | Classic Guyot. |
Harvest | Beginning of October. |
Wine making | Destemming and pressing fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks with pumping over and rack and return. Average length of maceration: 24 days Malolactic fermentation with technique of simultaneous inoculation. |
Aging | 24 months in 25 hl Slavonian oak casks. |
Allergens | Contains sulphites |