Pizzo Coca Rosso di Valtellina 2024 SCCOS maple syrup and raisins

maple syrup and raisins

and honey frame a gently viscous midpalate with impressive complexity for the appellation

' which is more or less what Etienne Calsac pulled off in 2010: at 26 he took back his grandparents' three hectares around Avize

Aromas of soft red fruits

Deutz's vintage rose only appears in years worth marking

Pizzo Coca Rosso di Valtellina 2024 SCCOS maple syrup and raisinsValtellina is Nebbiolo grown sideways on the wall of an Alpine valley terraces so steep that everything is done by hand because nothing else is possible. Pizzo Coca is a young operation, founded in 2015 by Lorenzo Mazzucconi in a converted old dairy in Ponte in Valtellina, working just over a hectare and a half of vines plus fruit from neighbors, and turning out around fifteen thousand bottles a year. The winemaking is deliberately hands off: hand