Proprieta Sperino Lessona 2019 NO20230719 Yamadanishiki and Kinmonnishiki

Yamadanishiki and Kinmonnishiki

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

fresh ground coffee

The result is a whisky with soft berry and forest-fruit notes you wouldn't expect from a grain spirit

Proprieta Sperino Lessona 2019 NO20230719 Yamadanishiki and KinmonnishikiLessona 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