Tenuta Scerscé -- A Vision for Nebbiolo

From alpine vineyards in Lombardy.

Cristina Scarpellini (image above) founded Tenuta Scerscé in 2008, on a one-acre plot of vines in Valtellina, a tiny alpine region in the northwestern reaches of Lombardy, just south of the Swiss border. Scarpellini soon gave up her job as an international lawyer and took on the fulltime task of expanding her property — now 17.5 acres — and producing wine from the nebbiolo grape, called chiavennasca locally. This area of steep, tiny vineyards and stone walls in Italy’s only east-west running valley was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018.