2021 Sandro Fay Carteria Valtellina Superiore Valgella Riserva

A fresh and elegant nose of strawberries, watermelon, leaves, stony minerality and a hint of tar. It’s forthright on the palate, with ripe, firm, dusty tannins, fruit concentration and crisp acidity.


100% Chiavennasca (Nebbiolo) [the name of the biotype of Nebbiolo found in the Valtellina]

Fermentation in stainless steel followed by malolactic
fermentation and aging for 24 months in 30HL Slavonian oak and tonneaux.

About Sandro Fay:

It was in 1971 when Sandro Fay began investing in the restoration of his family’s small vineyard in San Giacomo di Teglio, a village within the Valtellina Superiore DOCG. By  1973, Fay had officially established the Azienda Agricola Fay and began to slowly expand the vineyard by incorporating additional plots of land, carefully selecting vineyards with different soil compositions and altitudes between 350 meters and 900 meters on steep mountain sides. Today Sandro’s children, Marco and Elena have taken up the family vineyards. Marco studied enology in Trentino and trained in Barolo. He translated those experiences when he returned to the terraced family vineyards and began producing single-vineyard wines of distinction united around the variety Chiavennasca, known outside of Valtellina as Nebbiolo.