Ar. Pe. Pe., Valtellina Superiore Sassella 'Stella Retica', 2019 SPCOUNT0125 9% Cabernet Sauvignon

9% Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2023 vintage offers both power and elegance

delicious introduction to one of the great addresses in Meursault

Jean-Philippe Agisson spent ten years as cellar master for Alphonse Mellot at the iconic Domaine de la Moussiere in Sancerre — then was hand-picked by Louis-Benjamin Dagueneau to run the cellar at the legendary Didier Dagueneau estate

Ar. Pe. Pe., Valtellina Superiore Sassella 'Stella Retica', 2019 SPCOUNT0125 9% Cabernet SauvignonThis is where Ar. Pe. Pe. gets serious: Nebbiolo from the historic Sassella cru, held back nearly four years before release. The Pelizzatti Perego family farms south facing stone terraces between roughly 400 and 500 meters in Valtellina, the alpine corner of northern Lombardy just south of the Swiss border, where Nebbiolo goes by the local name Chiavennasca and every task is done by hand because the slopes allow nothing else. Stella Retica comes from