Pignola Valtellinese

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

  • About

Pignola Valtellinese, dark-berried vine almost certainly originating in valtellina. The 2010 vine census found a total of 1,300 ha/3,350 acres in 2010. dna profiling revealed a parent-offspring relationship with Rossolino Nero, also of Valtellina. It may be related to nebbiolo.