Description
Still red from Piedmont, Lessona DOC, 13.5% ABV, produced by Tenute Sella. Blend: 85% Nebbiolo, 15% Vespolina. 0.75L bottle, 2020 vintage. A wine born in the heart of Alto Piemonte, on the historic hills of Lessona, where the Sella family has preserved a tradition of excellence since 1671. Classic fermentation in stainless steel tanks with pumping over and delestage. Average maceration period: 24 days. Aged for 24 months in 25hl Slavonian oak barrels. A Lessona that expresses the complexity of Nebbiolo, with an elegance that reveals itself over time.
Pairings
Meat
Game
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork
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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| Name | Tenute Sella Lessona 2020 |
|---|---|
| Type | Red green still |
| Denomination | Lessona DOC |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| 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, on the historic hills of the municipality of Lessona |
| Climate | Altitude: 300 m. a.s.l. Exposure: South-West. |
| Soil composition | Soils with acid ph made up of orange-yellow marine sands. |
| Cultivation system | Classic Guyot. |
| Harvest | Mid-September to mid-October. |
| Wine making | Destemming-crushing. Classic fermentation in stainless steel tanks with pumping over and delestage. Average duration of maceration: 24 days. Malolactic fermentation during the following spring in wood. |
| Aging | 24 months in 25 hl Slavonian oak casks. |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |

