Very pale yellow. Complex nose of ripe apple, wet wool, honey and mineral notes. The honey flavour takes the lead on the palate for a full and rich mid-palate and a nice fruity taste. Balanced finish and ready to drink.
Made from 100% indigenous Sicilian Fiano grapes, this wine demonstrates why fine Sicilian native varieties deserve to be better known. It shows lovely floral and tropical-fruit intensity with notes of stone fruit and a lightly honeyed overtone. Racy minerality and lively acidity create great dynamic balance. Finishes just a bit short.
Fragrant honeysuckle leaps from the glass of this white blend from the hills of Custoza, a small hamlet in the commune of Sommacampagna, south-east of Lake Garda. The Ca' del Magro vineyard is over 40 years old, and a blend of Garganega, Trebbiano Toscano, Tocai Friulano, Cortese, Chardonnay, Riesling Italico, Malvasia and Incrocio Manzoni. This spends 6–8 months on full lees in stainless steel. Lush and full-bodied, with rosewater, honey, ripe quince, baked Golden Delicious apples and Asian pear. Tangerine freshness counters the ripe weight of the fruit, landing at a pleasant 13% alcohol and fine ginger spicing on the finish. A lovely full and complete wine to pour when you'd like a richer, fragrant wine with acidity. Try with glazed duck.
Made from hand-selected 100% Garganega grapes from hillside Soave vineyards. The grapes are left to dry for 40 days to reduce water content and concentrate sugar and colour. Partly fermented in oak, the wine is matured on the lees for 6‒7 months with another 4 months in bottle before release. The result shows deep green/gold in the glass with intense floral fragrance and elegant pear and citrus flavours with mellow, leesy richness balanced by subtle refreshing acidity.
Recioto originates in “recia,” meaning ear, and describing the the top part of the bunches that enjoy the best sun exposure. Here Corvina, Rondinella and Oseleta are dried over 5 months and pressed at the end of February before a 3-week ferment in horizontal stainless tanks prior to 2 years in oak barriques. Burnished brown sugar, carmelized plums, dried figs, tobacco, hints of reduced balsamic, cardamom and old wood in this very sweet-meets-savoury Recioto della Valpolicella. Classically old-school and perfectly so, with well-placed, firm acidity lifting the concentrated fruit. Complex and alluring through a very lengthy finish. Take with a cheese plate or ripe figs and blue cheese.
Opens with big, ripe buttery and subtle oaky notes and fine lemon citrus, mineral and balancing fresh acidity on the palate. Rich but not overstated, with a very long leesy and stony mineral finish.
Ruché is a native grape of north-eastern Piedmont, and was the wine reserved for special feasts and celebrations. Ruché Caresana is one of the flagship wines of Gatto, an 8 ha family estate from the late 19th century. The sandy/tuffaceous hillside vineyards are between 230 and 260 m and are farmed sustainably, including a mix of organic and biodynamic practices. This is fermented in a mix of stainless and glass-lined cement before time in larger-format Slavonian and French oak. Intense white pepper, geranium, wild plum and herbal green raspberry notes open and carry through to the fresh, light-bodied palate. Salted dried herbs, cured sweet salami, perfumed rock roses, nutmeg flow throughout, all lifted with a bright, brisk acidity and finishing with ample cracked pepper. An alluring rare beauty, best enjoyed slightly chilled and with an Italian charcuterie platter.