(2026) This is 100% Vespaiolo from the Breganze hills, the grapes dried for four months to concentrate flavours and sugar before spending one year in french oak barriques, one-third new. It has 150g/l of residual sugar and is such a lovely wine: barley sugar, Mandarin orange and a hint of toffee but brightly focused. The palate has notes of exotic spices, fragrant and delicate, rich fig and quince, lemon jelly and a hint of salted caramel, before decisive acid pushes through. Price for a half bottle.
(2020) In some ways I enjoyed drinking this most of all of Antonella Corda's wines Cannonau (Grenache), here made in a very Pinot-like, soft style, the colour pale and warm on the rim and the aromas of sweet damp earth, tobacco spices and savoury dark fruits as well as a touch of pulpy strawberry adding to the charm. In the mouth the fruit is elegant and precise, with a good framework of spicy tannin and keen acidity, but again that open-knit, Pinot-like texture and overall character and balance, it is delicious and charming. Price and stockist quoted is for the 2019 vintage.
