{"product_id":"ar-pe-pe-valtellina-sassella-stella-retica-2022","title":"Ar.Pe.Pe. Valtellina Sassella Stella Retica 2022","description":"Ar.Pe.Pe. has cult followers worldwide for its Alpine Nebbiolo, and Stella Retica is the Sassella bottling that shows why: Chiavennasca (the local name for Nebbiolo) from the Sassella cru. The name comes from the Rhaetian side of the Alps, which the Sassella is carved into, and from the stella alpina, the edelweiss children hoped to find on mountain walks. (A climber has since named a route after the wine, and you can find it on the maps.) The vines grow on steep terraces held up by hand-built dry-stone walls, and every cluster is picked by hand, on foot, one terrace at a time. Then comes the patience Arturo Pelizzatti Perego built the house around when he re-founded it in 1984: spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in large, traditional upright casks, and release only when the wine is ready. The family motto, \"il giusto tempo del Nebbiolo,\" means the right waiting time for Nebbiolo, and few wines put it into practice as plainly as this one. The family compares the first sip to the wine's tongue-twister of a name: taut enough to astonish you, soft enough not to catch you unprepared.","brand":"Vinity Wine Company [VWC]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44000908279843,"sku":"SF-W-VWC-100726-1","price":75.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0044\/1208\/0163\/files\/Bottle-of-Ar_Pe_Pe_-Valtellina-Sassella-Stella-Retica-2022-Red-Wine-Flatiron-SF.jpg?v=1794437496","url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/ar-pe-pe-valtellina-sassella-stella-retica-2022","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}