Punta Crena, Riviera Ligure di Ponente Rossese, 2024 green herbs and salty finish. Unfiltered and unfined a touch of sea salts

a touch of sea salts and a nice topnote of rancio

imparts this wine with ripe

gentle-handed treatment that trades rusticity for purity and freshness

A textbook example of fine Burgundy structure in a lighter

This is Raveneau’s pinnacle at premier cru level: complete and complex

Punta Crena, Riviera Ligure di Ponente Rossese, 2024 green herbs and salty finish. Unfiltered and unfined a touch of sea saltsRossese is Liguria's great red grape rarely seen outside the region, deeply local, and entirely its own creature. Punta Crena grows it on the same terraced schist cliffs above Varigotti where the family has farmed for generations. The result is a red of genuine delicacy: low alcohol, brilliant acidity, and a floral lightness that puts it closer to a great Pinot Noir or Loire Cabernet Franc than anything one might associate with the Mediterranean. It