This straw-yellow colored Pinot Grigio offers a pleasant and inviting fruit bouquet with rich aromas from apple and ripe melon. Harmonious and velvety, this white wine is a great complimentary beverage for seafood and white meat.
- Type of wine: white wine.
- Vintage year: 2013.
- Age: 1.
- Type of grape: Pinot Grigio.
- County of origin: Friuli.
- Sweetness level: dry.
- Alcohol by volume: 12.5%.
- Planting density: 5000 vines/ha.
- Production: 80 quintal/ha.
- Cultivation technique: Guyot.
Tasting notes:
- In the glass, our Pinot Grigio has straw-yellow tones touched with copper tones which recall the color of its grapes. Very unique and individual, its fluidity in the glass shows that it is an important wine with good consistency.
- When brought to the nose, it gives off apple, ripe melon, powder and toast smells, which make it inviting to taste. We find it savory and compact on the palate: it never leaves us without a moment of breaking, the olfactory notes which recur on the palate give us a very pleasurable fresh feeling and make us understand further, if it is needed, the great substance of this wine of our land.
When to drink:
- A wine that can drunk in the most varied pleasant settings. Pinot Grigio is in its element sharing the table with shellfish au gratin, fish soups and "fat" cooked fish, or stewed fish.
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- The grapes came to Fiuli from France over a hundred years ago, and were derived from a German mutation of the Pinot Nero. It has found its ideal habitat in our region. Its grapes can give us emotions which are recognized and appreciated throughout the world. Pinot Grigio is today the most cultivated variety in Friuli, so much that, after due consideration, it has earned the name "prince of Friuli".