The Nebbiolo grape variety has long been associated with Italy's Piedmont region. There it is used to produce two of Italy's greatest wines: Barolo, the self­styled king of Italian wines, and its equally distinguished cousin, Barbaresco. There is one other kingdom, however, where it reigns supreme. This region, largely unknown to international wine enthusiasts, is Lombardy's hidden valley – the Valtellina.

The Valtellina is a long, narrow alpine valley on the Rhaetian side of the Alps, in the province of Sondrio, at the far north of the Lombardy region along the Swiss­Italian border. The valley, about 100 kilometres northeast of Milan, runs along a 220­kilometre east­west axis from the village of Berbenno to the village of Tirano. The wine­producing region is only about 50 kilometres in length, roughly on either side of the town of Sondrio.

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