Proprieta Sperino Lessona 2019 NO20230719 and an almost Medoc-like tannic

and an almost Medoc-like tannic architecture

What's left is Champagne stripped back to its frame: chalk

A carefully calibrated blend of peated and unpeated spirits from Goa

focused South African red that shows what its signature grape can do when someone actually restrains it

On the palate

Proprieta Sperino Lessona 2019 NO20230719 and an almost Medoc-like tannicLessona was once one of Italy's great wine names, and then phylloxera, war and the factory jobs of the industrial north emptied the hills out. Paolo de Marchi the man behind Isole e Olena in Chianti came back to his family's ancestral ground with his son Luca in 1999 to bring it back, and Propriet Sperino is the result: one of the most important vineyard restorations in Italy. The soils here are ancient sea sand, acidic and mineral, and they give