Davide Carlone Colline Novaresi Vespolina 2022

Davide’s Vespolina is a red wine flush with volcanic power. Vespolina is a historical grape variety in Boca, but it’s uncommon to find one bottled on its own — as rare as is it to find one made with such intention. This is cool-toned and easy for sipping but especially with a few hours or days open it takes on a cacao-like weightiness. Imagining drinking alongside a spicey tomato-olivey sauce. Davide says that some Boca farmers harvest Vespolina before it’s fully ripened, as it is a magnet for certain vineyard pests — to get character and spice it is preferable, according to Davide, to let it hang to full maturity. The Vespolina is vinified and aged in stainless steel tanks. These vines are planted in 1935