Proprieta Sperino Lessona 2019 Wine Bar | Ghost Town 100 year old trees produce

100 year old trees produce this concentrated

Complex and quietly legendary

where cool wind spills down from the woods above the village and stretches the growing season out

what was once considered a "movement" has become the mainstream

Bernard Baudry's flagship Chinon

Proprieta Sperino Lessona 2019 Wine Bar | Ghost Town 100 year old trees produceLessona was once one of Italy's great wine names, and then phylloxera, war and the factory jobs of the industrial north emptied the hills out. Paolo de Marchi the man behind Isole e Olena in Chianti came back to his family's ancestral ground with his son Luca in 1999 to bring it back, and Propriet Sperino is the result: one of the most important vineyard restorations in Italy. The soils here are ancient sea sand, acidic and mineral, and they give