Aldo Rainoldi Sfursat, Sforzato di Valtellina, 2006 21225BORCHAMP and few wines are as

and few wines are as rare or as sought-after as Christophe Roumier's Bonnes Mares

From a cool

The finish is long and layered

it blends power

mineral spine that drives the long

Aldo Rainoldi Sfursat, Sforzato di Valtellina, 2006 21225BORCHAMP and few wines are asA mountain Nebbiolo built like Amarone: Sforzato (Sfursat in dialect) is made from Chiavennasca grapes dried on ventilated racks until December, shedding nearly a third of their weight before fermentation. Aldo Rainoldi has farmed the steep terraces of Valtellina, in Lombardy's far north against the Swiss border, since 1925, and this is the region's grandest expression a fully dry red with the concentration of appassimento behind it. At nearly two