Lessona

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• From a geological standpoint, Lessona is a tongue of marine sediments resting on a deep porphyritic bedrock, with loose alluvial soils and highly acidic, reddish sands.
• The soils are rich in minerals such as iron, potassium, and magnesium, with a magmatic component contributed by porphyries and granites.
• The average altitude of the vineyards is around 350 metres above sea level, in a relatively mild climate.
• The proximity of Monte Rosa helps shelter the vineyards of northern Piedmont from northerly air currents, and these vineyards benefit from a marked diurnal temperature range.

• The State Archive of Biella holds references to local viticulture dating back to 1436, the year in which the purchase of a vineyard was recorded.
• The wine was already celebrated in the seventeenth century, and numerous historical sources attest to the territory's potential.

• The Nebbiolo variety expresses itself with a characteristic rusty minerality that lends the wines a marked and clearly defined mineral salinity, combined with lightness and elegance and tannins that are well integrated even from a young age.

• The production regulations link the rusty minerality and mineral salinity of Nebbiolo to the terroirs of Lessona, which impart a notably distinctive aromatic profile to the wines.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A1191
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Tutela Nebbioli Alto Piemonte