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Vini di Giovanni - Ciliegiozzo Frizzante 2021

Vini di Giovanni - Ciliegiozzo Frizzante 2021

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A light, bright, and bubbly Umbrian rosato. Mildly sweet, with delightful fruit notes of strawberry, raspberry, and watermelon on the fore, with subtle notes of citrus, cherry, and currant, and a delightful spice element.

Its not just a flavour, but a feeling - the best of summer which you can't help but reminisce about.

Producer


Grapes

Vini di Giovanni


Ciliegiolo

Country


Region

Italy


Colli Perugini  /Umbria

The Fruit


Viticulture

Estate


Organic

Additions

Minimal

Weight

Light Bodied

 

NERD NOTES

Direct press Ciliegiolo with no skin maceration. Partial primary fermentation in open top resin tank before aging in fiberglass until February when the wine was bottled. It then underwent natural re-fermentation in the bottle with frozen must from the same wine. No sulfur additions.

ABOUT VINI DI GIOVANNI

Wines by Giovanni Battista Mesina

Giovanni is “Il pastore che fa il vino”, a third-generation shepherd who not only is “the shepherd who makes wine” but also delicious cheese and olive oil from ancient Umbrian trees protected by Unesco.

Originally from the Barbagia, the Mountain region of Sardinia, he moved to Umbria as a young child where he grew up and married Cosetta. Several years ago planted 3 hectares of grapes to make all indigenous varietals other than staying true to his roots and also planting Vermentino to make his first and cult natural wine the “Vermentuzzo”.

The sheep, trees and grapes are all farmed on organic soil in the elevated, rugged and mountainous central wine region of Umbria, Pianello.

At 300 metres above sea level, the organic soil is a mixture of marl coming from an ancient salt lake and limestone rock. Giovanni’s approach to winemaking is very ‘hands off’ and allows wild yeasts to ferment the wines, while using stainless tanks to preserve the purity of these wines.  All wines are unfiltered and unfined with zero sulphites added even down to the labels that are made from the grass in winery, as Giovanni says “to capture the magical expression of the fruit and the earth”.

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