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The only element that announces the entrance of the ArPePe winery is a door placed in a wooden barrel. Once passed that threshold, you enter the premises wanted by Guido Pelizzatti at Buon Consiglio. Those of today are just a part of the original winery, obtained under the vineyards of Grumello. The space for fining measures 1,400 square meters and grows in height for 8 meters, lapping the roots of the terraced vines.
From the fermentation tanks, the red wines of ArPePe are soon transferred to large barrels made of Slavonian oak, chestnut and acacia. These are mainly containers of fifty hectoliters, in which the wine rests without being squeezed by wood.
Aside from the Rosso di Valtellina (which passes from an Ermenegildo Velo vitrified concrete vat dating back to the 60s to large oak barrels for six months and at least one year in the bottle!) only Fiamme Antiche and Ultimi Raggi have an aging period of only twelve to eighteen months in oak barrels. The other wines spend years of slow evolution (with times that are significantly higher than the requirements of the specifications) until bottling, strictly marked by the phases of the moon, as at the time of Arturo. Then, again, to rest, this time in bottles.
On the traditional aging of Nebbiolo, they invest accurate expectations: a progressive gain in sophistication and the enhancement of native lands with their specificity. There, you will find a mineral feature, but also the freshness of flavor notes. Sassella shows itself as imperious, dominating, as the rocks on which it lives. At the ArPePe House they do not fear pallid colors, those ruby red hues increasingly tending to garnet with the passage of time. You can trace warm sensations of stone kissed by the sun, of spices and of ripe fruit or of spirit, but also sensations of red berries and leather.
On top of the barrels, vines climb up to the top of the De Piro Stronghold, dominated by the medieval De Piro Castle, reopened to the public after the restoration by the FAI.
The Consortium for the Protection of the Valtellina Wines, founded in 1976, since 1997 has been representing all the wine houses and wineries in the province of Sondrio and now the only Italian Consortium that can boast two D.O.C.G. coincident for territory and grapes, on Valtellina Superiore and Sforzato di Valtellina, carried out the activity of control until July 2009. Its aims include also aspects closely linked to the territory, as evidenced by the recent establishment of the Provinea Foundation for the Protection of the terraces in Valtellina. This concept is also found in the dual mission, represented by the enhancement and promotion of the wine of Valtellina in Italy and abroad as a symbol of a territory, and by the protection of the wine culture in Valtellina, an essential element for the protection of an area considered among the most fascinating in the world.
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Via Buon Consiglio, 4 23100
Sondrio (Sondrio)
The only element that announces the entrance of the ArPePe winery is a door placed in a wooden barrel. Once passed that threshold, you enter the premises wanted by Guido Pelizzatti at Buon...
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Via Buon Consiglio 4 23100
Sondrio (Sondrio)
Via Buon Consiglio 4 23100
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Via Scarpatetti 15 23100
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Via Piazzi, 23 23100
Sondrio (Sondrio)
The Consortium for the Protection of the Valtellina Wines, founded in 1976, since 1997 has been representing all the wine houses and wineries in the province of Sondrio and now the only Italian...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA