“Ronco Pitotti” Pinot Grigio - Vignai da Duline100% Pinot Grigio from Friuli Colli Orientali, Italy. Organic. "Ronco Pitotti is a terraced amphitheater planted to old clones of local varieties including nearly four acres of Pinot Grigio up to eighty years in age. The juice is intensely mineral, hinting at wet stone and almonds, with a textural fullness and depth acquired through barrel aging and malolactic fermentation. A stark contrast with generic, mass produced examples of Pinot Grigio, this

The wine is sourced from grapes harvested from vineyards that were planted between 1930-1940

organic and biodynamic

where it was also aged for around 18 months

He cures his own sausage

So back to the methods that had worked for generations before him and then passing those methods along to his son and daughter

it ages for two years in Slavonian and Allier oak barrels

And because it's the new year and I know I'm certainly feeling like my wallet (and credit cards) could use a break

This wine also went through some malolactic conversion

Winemaker and owner Adrian de Pablo melded his background in biochemistry and his family’s 50 year old history of winemaking and carefully monitors the ripeness of grapes around harvest and uses minimal intervention to coax out the lush fruit flavors while maintaining their vivid acidity

Passionfruit & a Hint of Pine

3% Cabernet Franc & 2% Petit Verdot from the Santa Cruz Mountains

but very much like Burgundy was made 20 years ago