PINOT GRIGIO FROM THE PAST

THESE SOPHISTICATED WINES PROVE THAT ITALY HAS MORE TO OFFER THAN THE PERENNIALLY POPULAR SUMMER FAVOURITE

THE BIG THREE Gini Soave Classico Contrada Selvarenza Vecchie Vigne 2014 Never a flashy producer, Gini has been quietly growing some of northern Italy’s finest white grapes for 400 years. Made principally from garganega, this old-vine bottling (100+ years) has the lusciousness of a honey-poached pear. It billows over the palate, revealing a bituminous nuttiness on the back, though acidity pushes it away from overt heaviness. La Staffa Verdicchio Castelli di Jesi Superiore 2017 Verdicchio, known for an energetic greenness and vivacity, comes in two distinct regional flavours. Jesi, the more famous, comes from a gently hilly stretch of Adriatic coast, yielding a less extreme, more pliant expression. This youthful version evokes white grapefruit and quartz; it is pristine and radiant. Its structure is upright, its acid bracing but not…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2020

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