Winemaker Notes
Bright straw yellow color. The elegant, mineral nose is marked by pleasant exotic notes, hints of candied fruit and citrus. The palate features remarkable expressive elegance, assertive density typical of the variety, proving warm and lingering.
Ideal with lake and sea fish, soups, flavorsome pasta and rice dishes, white meat served in a sauce.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine bursts upward the moment it's poured, exuberant and buzzing with tart pineapple, candied citrus, lemongrass, and the clean scent of wet stone after rain. The texture is bright and crunchy, with tropical fruit spinning through the glass before a final snap of lime tightens everything up. It's fun and fresh, perfect alongside chilled cucumber soup with a touch of bird's eye chili.
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James Suckling
An intense wine with layered aromas of white peaches, smoke, sage and lychees. Light-bodied on the palate, it shows balance, freshness and a savory finish.
There are hundreds of white grape varieties grown throughout the world. Some are indigenous specialties capable of producing excellent single varietal wines. Each has its own distinct viticultural characteristics, as well as aroma and flavor profiles.
Producing every style of wine and with great success, the Veneto is one of the most multi-faceted wine regions of Italy.
Veneto's appellation called Valpolicella (meaning “valley of cellars” in Italian) is a series of north to south valleys and is the source of the region’s best red wine with the same name. Valpolicella—the wine—is juicy, spicy, tart and packed full of red cherry flavors. Corvina makes up the backbone of the blend with Rondinella, Molinara, Croatina and others playing supporting roles. Amarone, a dry red, and Recioto, a sweet wine, follow the same blending patterns but are made from grapes left to dry for a few months before pressing. The drying process results in intense, full-bodied, heady and often, quite cerebral wines.
Soave, based on the indigenous Garganega grape, is the famous white here—made ultra popular in the 1970s at a time when quantity was more important than quality. Today one can find great values on whites from Soave, making it a perfect choice as an everyday sipper! But the more recent local, increased focus on low yields and high quality winemaking in the original Soave zone, now called Soave Classico, gives the real gems of the area. A fine Soave Classico will exhibit a round palate full of flavors such as ripe pear, yellow peach, melon or orange zest and have smoky and floral aromas and a sapid, fresh, mineral-driven finish.
Much of Italy’s Pinot grigio hails from the Veneto, where the crisp and refreshing style is easy to maintain; the ultra-popular sparkling wine, Prosecco, comes from here as well.