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TN: Balgera Valtellina's From Thanksgiving

Had two Balgera Wines with my low fat, low carb meal Thursday.

1994 Valtellina Superiore La Frasca-Brownish red tones. Typical nebbiolo tobacco-rubber nose, low acidic fruit some tannins left, moderate finish. 83/100 Ready now. Suggested retail $15 US.

1995 Sassella- Red colour, tobaccoey nose, good fruit and acidity, good tannins presage a few more years of good drinking. 87/100, Suggested retail $15US

Balgera, a small winery in the Valtellina, are former clients of mine. See my website

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for more details regarding US distribution. Traditionally these wines are lighter and more approachable with food than nebbiolo from the Langhe-more attuned to nebbiolo from the Novarra-Vercelli region.

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Joe Beppe Rosenberg
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The only Valtellina Superiore's I've tried were from Conte Sertoli Salis & Triacca-- both nicely crafted wines marrying zesty fruit with interesting darker flavors that you don't get in most New World reds. Regrettably, they're priced in the over-$20 range and beyond my budget for everyday drinking.

But for Thanksgiving I popped open a couple bottles of Balgera's frizzante (Terrazze Retiche di Sondrio IGT), a fizzified white chiavennasca (a/k/a nebbiolo). Dry, yet deliciously fun and totally slurpable... even my grandma liked it!

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