2023 Cà da l'Era "Prünent" Valli Ossolane Nebbiolo Superiore (PRE-ARRIVAL ONLY)

Pre-arrival price only wine will be $109 when landed.

VERY LIMITED - 6 BOTTLE LIMIT SORRY

17/20 Walter Speller (Jancis Robinson) – “Just mid ruby. An inviting peppery, round nose but much more complex than it sounds and with a spicy note of stalks. Opens up to perfumed cool raspberry. Gentle, succulent and almost ethereal raspberry fruit and bags of crunchy tannins. Super-elegant and long and reserved.”

Cà da l'Era fashion stunning alpine Nebbiolo from the very ancient Prünent clone – first records of it date back to the early 1300s. Prünent is a clone of Nebbiolo produced in Valli Ossolana (Piedmont) on the western side of Lake Maggiore looking back across the lake to Valtellina on the Lombardian site. Much like Valtellina it is grown on steep mountainous vineyards (often terraces cut up the hillside).It’s an obscure but beautiful clone – and Mara Toscani at Cà da l'Era produces the finest example we have tried.

Grown just a few kilometres from the Swiss border – Mara’s Prünent is raised on a combination of Guyot & Pergola (“toppia”) training systems with very old vines. It comes from a mere 1ha of terraced vineyards on very steep slopes.  The ultra cool climate & harvest conditions here have contributed to the low ABV for Nebbiolo of just 13.5%.

Production is tiny – but the quality is exceptional.  Those that managed to acquire a bottle of her 2019 would attest to this.