Type: White Wine
Country: Italy
Region: Veneto
Code: VILL033
A serious Pinot Grigio from a quality driven producer, demonstrating the elegance this grape can achieve. Try this blind against other High Street wine and you will see the refinement and sheer class of both the grape and the producer shine through. Made with smaller yields, care, attention to detail in both vineyard and winery - is it worth the difference...? Yes, YES, YES!
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Villa Sandi

Villa Sandi is owned and managed by Giancarlo Moretti Polegato and his family. The journey began in the 1920s, Mario Polegato, grandfather to Giancarlo, obtained some vineyards and began farming. After the Second World War, the family-owned enterprise became all encompassing. From Mario to his son Divo and wife Amalia, to their sons Mario and Giancarlo. The two brothers were incredibly passionate about the wine industry with Mario an oenologist whereas Giancarlo focused on the financial side. Unfortunately, their family had to deal with much tragedy with Mario senior being crushed by a runaway cart of wine barrels, and Divo passing away prematurely in 1979 when he borrowed Mario junior’s...

Light stone fruits, floral notes and a hint of lemon drops with a mineral core running through the wine leading to a crisp finish.
A perfect accompaniment to crab linguine, or other light seafood dishes.
The Pinot Grigio grapes are harvested by machine in late September and early October, picked at optimum time according to each vineyard plot being analysed daily leading up to the harvest. The grapes are brought to the winery, pressed and the clear juice transferred into steel tanks for a long cool fermentation using natural yeasts. The wine remains on the fine lees for a short time, before racking into a clean tank for Malolactic ferment to reduce the acidity, then storage before filtering and bottling in the late spring following the harvest
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