De Stefani Vènis 2021
Vènis praises the international soul of Venice. The Venetian sumptuous banquets of the eighteenth century feel the exotic taste with importing by charming places spices and delicious foods, mastery matched with Sauvignon blanc and Chardonnay.
The wine is of a straw yellow colour; demonstrates a firm aromatic bouquet with exotic notes, citrus fruit and elder-tree. On the palate it has a wide taste and good minerality.
Venis is ideal with pasta with clams, grilled sea bass, fried squids and wild salmon. Wonderful with asparagus recipes.
Vinification: soft pressing of the entire grapes, cool static clarification and fermentation at controlled temperature for Sauvignon blanc in cement vats and for Chardonnay in barrique. Then the wine matures for several months on its noble lees in stainless steel vats. The lees are frequently mixed in order to increase the thickness and the smoothness of the wine.
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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