Gattinara’s vineyards form a dramatic amphitheater just west of the Sesia River, and their soils of red porphyry (Gattinara was once the heart of an ancient volcano) give the Nebbiolo grown there a distinctively powerful, penetrating minerality. The Osso vineyard sits near the very top of the amphitheater, and its particularly rocky and poor soils imbue Monsecco’s Gattinara (100% Nebbiolo) with a vigorous acidity around which the wide range of flavors and palate sensations are tightly coiled. - Importer