Wines : Valtellina Rosso DOC

The Valtellina valley, located slightly more than 100 kilometers to the northeast of Milan, in the province of Sondrio, is large, green and lush. Carved out of the slopes that descend to the Adda river, Valtellina’s vineyards produce a series of red wines that are among Lombardy’s most prestigious.

Today, as then, the vineyards are for the most part planted on terraces supported by dry-stone walls. The vine-growing spaces have been wrested from the mountains, a square meter at a time, through the stubborn labor of the area’s growers.