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This is a first release from Sandra and it is almost hard to believe that the wine turned out so beautiful (let’s...
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Made from 100% Cortese grapes, this delicious white is both soft and crisp. With a pleasant stony minerality, this...
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Fresh and citrusy on the nose with green apples, white flowers and white pepper on offer. Medium-bodied, chalky and...
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Spicy herbs, fresh lemons, green apples and gooseberries on the nose with a medium body and sleek texture. Dry and...
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The soils of the island of Mozia derive from seabeds of marine origin. They are sandy and loose soils. The presence...
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• 10–15 year old vines of Grillo grown in yellow sandy-clay soils that enhance the freshness and aromas of the...
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• 10–15 year old vines of Grillo grown in yellow sandy-clay soils that enhance the freshness and aromas of the...
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The Monterotondo is the Villa Sparina Cru obtained from rich, complex grapes from a historic, favourably exposed part...
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The Gavi DOCG del Comune di Gavi has always been integral to the historic identity of Villa Sparina.
It is a great...
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Cortese Grenache Grillo Mencia
The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.