Winery Overview
Colombera & Garella is project of with Cristiano Garella, Alto Piemontese wünderkind and leading consultant for a number of properties, with his long-time friend Giacomo Colombera, and Giacomo’s father, Carlo, who has been growing grapes in Bramaterra since the early 1990s. This property has quickly become one of the gems alto piemonte, especially in the Lessona and Bramaterra growing areas.
The Colombera & Garella winery is located in Masserano, in Northern Piedmont. They cultivate 9.5 hectares of vineyards between the villages of Lessona, Masserano and Roasio. Using only native grapes - Nebbiolo, Croatina and Vespolina - they make Lessona DOC, Bramaterra DOC and Coste della Sesia DOC. In the cellar they apply a light-handed winemaking, respecting the rhythms of nature and accompanying the wines to their natural aging. In the winemaking process they seek the best representation of the peculiarities of each winegrowing area and vineyard.
Part of the PortoVino portfolio
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Vineyard
At 350-400 meters, Bramaterra and Lessona’s soils are distinctly acidic, quite different from Barolo and Barbaresco’s basic soils. These acidic soils produce wine with lower alcohol than you find nowadays in the Langhe, and give the wines a ferrous, sanguine minerality. These are wines whose structure seems to come from minerality (as slippery as that word can be) more than from tannins.
Bramaterra’s volcanic soil is composed of crumbly red-brown rocks made from porphytic sand crystals. These wines have a muscular fruit, and a deep, chiseled minerality. There’s something rough yet charming around the mineral edges, sort of like approaching papà Carlo in the vineyards when he gives you a bear hug.
Lessona still has acidic soil as well, but here you see a marine sand that’s yellow or red-ochre in color. Lessona’s fruit is svelte, with a delicate, etched minerality – think wild strawberries and their popping seeds.
