The Nino Negri 2016 Sforzato di Valtellina Sfursat 5 Stelle is this estate's top wine (with 25,000 bottles produced). Only made in the best vintages from a special selection of Nebbiolo grapes, the wine sees air-dried fruit in the celebrated Sforzato tradition. The first vintage of this wine was 1983. The bouquet presents dried fruit and cherry confit aromas that come from the appassimento process, some oak spice and toast from the aging and linear mineral tones that reflect the granite soils of these mountains. This is a round and thickly concentrated wine with a rich phenolic profile to help it age over the next decade or so.