Mamete Prevostini

History of the Mamete Prevostini winery: Always a major commercial hub, the Valtellina has historically linked Italy to Switzerland and generally to all of northern Europe. It is an area whose roads over the centuries have been traversed by peoples and civilizations that, with the passing of decades, have left a contribution that is today clearly recognizable through traditions, culture and typical products. Around the most important of these, the wine, a large community was created that still carries on the same production processes as in the past, using what is universally recognized as one of the world's greatest grape varieties, nebbiolo, here called chiavennasca. The history of the Mamete Prevostini winery began more than seventy years ago, when Mamete Prevostini himself began, soon after World War I, to producing wine with local grapes inside the family Crotto, a typical natural cavity in Valchiavenna formed in prehistoric times. It was in 1988, however, that Mamete's grandson, the current owner, took over the winery reins and after a series of trials lasting about eight years signed his first, real production in 1995, transforming the winery, within about ten years, into an exceptionally valuable winemaking project.

I wines of Mamete Prevostini today are differentially aged according to unwritten rules that are renewed year after year. Elegance, finesse, power for a great interpretation of the nebbiolo in Valtellina. The estate vineyards, at present, cover an area of eight hectares, to which twelve more are leased. Between the rows, with the utmost respect for what is the balance of environment, nature and ecosystem, the vines are raised with care and attention, so that they come to produce bunches that are rich, forthright and concentrated in every smallest organoleptic nuance. In the winery, the grapes are processed and interpreted always trying to enhance what season and territory were able to express in the fruit. In this way, labels are born that answer to names such as "Botonero”, “Santa Rita”, “Sommarovina”, “St. Lawrence”, “Opera”, “Vertemate" e "Monrose". Whites, Reds and Rosés, telling the story of the best Valtellina when it comes to wine online and off.