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Dirupi, Rosso di Valtellina Ole!, 2024

Red Wine from Other Italy, Italy
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This is the easiest way into Dirupi, and into mountain Nebbiolo in general: a Rosso di Valtellina with some vines up to 100 years old. Olé comes from 1.5 hectares of plots at 400–450 metres, on soils of sand, silt and clay. Fermentation is on locally selected yeasts. Davide Fasolini and Pierpaolo di Franco grew up together in Sondrio. After enology degrees in Milan they came home and pieced together 18 ancient terraced sites so steep that they named the estate after them (Dirupi means "cliffs"). Everything is certified organic. Vines that old don't usually turn up in the kind of bottle you'd open on a weeknight, and that's exactly the sort of find we love. Pour it for the Barolo drinker who hasn't found Valtellina yet.

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Kerin O'Keefe

90 points

"Made with grapes grown 400m above sea level and vinified entirely in steel, the 2024 Rossi di Valtellina Ole is a bright, accessible red with aromas of rose, wild strawberry, bitter orange and star anise. The aromas carry over to the linear palate along with a saline note and lithe tannins. Drink through 2028." —Kerin O'Keefe

More about Dirupi

Dirupi is the story of two kids from Sondrio who swam against the tide. Davide Fasolini and Pierpaolo Di Franco came back to the Valtellina to make wine. The two grew up playing basketball together and later both studied winemaking at the University of Milan. They started the winery in 2004 with no family vineyards and very little money, renting a handful of small, steeply terraced plots high in the Alps.

The Valtellina is Lombardy's great mountain valley, just south of the Swiss border, where Nebbiolo (called Chiavennasca locally) grows on south-facing stone terraces so steep that everything is done by hand. Dirupi's parcels sit at roughly 400 to 650 meters, some with very old vines, and the partners learned much of their craft from the elderly growers who used to farm them. They farm organically, with several wines now certified, and the cellar is in a historic palazzo in Ponte in Valtellina.

The range climbs from the bright, juicy Rosso di Valtellina "Olé!" to a Valtellina Superiore blended from many plots, and on to single-vineyard bottlings from the Grumello and Inferno subzones. There is also a Sforzato made from partly dried grapes and a Nebbiolo sparkling rosé. Across the board, this is Alpine Nebbiolo: fresh, perfumed and lighter on its feet than Barolo, with real mountain energy.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Nebbiolo

  • Vintage

    2024

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Style

    Elegant

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Full Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Pizzoccheri (Valtellina's buckwheat pasta with cabbage, potato and melted Casera cheese), bresaola with arugula and shaved Parmigiano, mushroom risotto, pork sausages over soft polenta, or roast chicken with rosemary potatoes.

Tasting Profile

Expect the classic mountain Nebbiolo profile: red cherry, wild strawberry and violet, with hints of dried herbs and a stony, alpine freshness. Typically light to medium-bodied, with bright acidity and fine, gentle tannins (think a leaner, more delicate Barolo), finishing dry, savoury and refreshing.

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