De Stefani Pinot Grigio 2021
92 points James Suckling
92 points Luca Maroni
Since more than 50 years Pinot Grigio De Stefani grows on a clay soil, with a good ventilation, near the sea and the mountains. This white wine impresses for the intensity of its aroma, which goes from exotic fruit to spices, revealing at the palate wideness and long persistence.
Tasting Characteristics: straw yellow colour with coppery hues, elegant and delicate bouquet, with fruit notes, full body, with a nut and toasted almond finish.
Food Matching : ideal with sophisticated hors d’oeuvres, fish courses and eggs.
How is the wine made?
stay on fine lees for about 2 months with the weekly batonnage in stainless steel container
About the winery
The De Stefani family originates in Refrontolo, a little hilly village in Veneto Italy. As results in official documents of 1624. In the second half of 1800 Valeriano De Stefani, the founder, individualized the best soil where to produce wines of rare indigenous territorial personality “thanks to the Caranto soil”, as is the Colvendrame estate in Refrontolo, on the hills between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, north of Venice, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Today Alessandro De Stefani “ fourth generation” follows his father Tiziano in producing wines that follows a very natural philosophy of sustainability by maintaining and preserving the growth of old healthy vines, planted by choice in very high-density vineyards, without the use of chemicals or animal products, and using only indigenous yeasts without additional sulphites in the process of making their wines, turning native varieties into a better expression of themselves.
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