Tenuta di Valgiano

2023 Palistorti di Valgiano

Vino Bianco IGT Toscana
Vermentino 30% Trebbiano 30%, Malvasia 30%, Grechetto.
White wine
Demeter certified

Once upon a time, white grapes were co planted with red grapes mixed in the vineyard; they were then processed all together to make low alcohol red wine. Nowadays, they are vinified as a white wine, the result being , an elegant, fresh, entertaining Mediterranean wine.
Vineyard and climate – Two hectares vineyard, average 28 years old, lying on soils of limestone formed during recent glaciation, bearing character both from the coast and the nearby Apennines mountain range.
Harvest / cellar: Grapes are hand picked in small boxes. They are selected, then pressed and fermented in stainless steel; only Vermentino, is destemmed manually, undergoes short skin contact of one day and one night, enough to extract the best juice from the tough flesh, then it is fermented in barrique, finally transferred in steel tanks together with the rest of the white grapes.
Maturation: Six months in stainless steel vats. Light bentonite fining just before bottling, then ready to be released.
Biodynamic (Demeter), since 2002; Certified Organic (Icea).