Colombera & Garella Lessona Pizzaguerra 2019 REDBURGUNDYROUNDUP These wines deserve to be

These wines deserve to be better known than they are

juicy everyday red with real Rioja pedigree behind it — a house wine from a serious house

building the elegant fine bubbles and precise structure that define this traditional method treasure from an estate founded in 1768

from fish to white meat

ending with a hint of toasted oak

Colombera & Garella Lessona Pizzaguerra 2019 REDBURGUNDYROUNDUP These wines deserve to beColombera & Garella is one of Alto Piemonte's very best producers Cristiano Garella's wines are picture perfect representations of these varied northern terroirs, organically farmed and naturally made. Lessona Pizzaguerra is their top single vineyard cuve, a Nebbiolo based wine from a high site of sandy maritime soils layered over crystal rich igneous subsoils a geology unlike anywhere else in Piedmont. The result has a kind of pointillist feel: