Veneto IGT Bianco passito 2020 - Santa Colomba

Veneto IGT Bianco passito - Santa Colomba

The Bianco passito di Santa Colomba is a sweet wine made from 100% Garganega grapes. The grapes are harvested in small crates and left to dry with the "Picai" technique until the end of February, then pressed with the whole bunch fermented with indigenous yeasts, then after racking batonnage for about 120 days. The refinement then takes place in glass and steel.

Service

It is recommended to taste it at a temperature of 10/12 ° in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but left a few years in the bottle can give great emotions.

Pairing

Excellent with blue or very mature cheeses and foie gras. Also excellent on ricotta desserts and dry pastries.

Cellar: Santa Colomba

Santa Colomba is a very recent project, inaugurated in the current management in 2016, but with very clear ideas. Marco Dani and Gianfranco Mistrorigo, respectively agronomist and oenologist of the company, were also the creators of this new chapter of a story that began in the distant 10th century. Franco Giacosa also collaborates. On the hill of villa San Fermo in Lonigo, western branch of the Berici Hills, today 8 and a half hectares of vineyards are growing, first of all Garganega - the vine of the territory - but also Istrian Malvasia and Bordeaux cultivars. Marco and Gianfranco immediately choose the organic route (the certification comes into force obviously from 2019), with the intent to bring to life and support the botanical variety of a hill where, next to the historic villa, there is a splendid English park rich in trees and numerous plant species. The approach in the winemaking phase is fully coherent with the viticultural one: spontaneous fermentations are entrusted to a pied de cuve from indigenous yeasts, the refinements take place on the fine lees, without any forced clarification, but limiting to a coarse filtration before going into bottle if necessary. The management of sulphites is prudent and proportionate to the real needs of individual wines. The end result is surprisingly fine and elegant.