Description
Chardonnay and Viognier, two international varietals, have found their locus amoenus among the sunny hills of Western Sicily: the result is a wine in which richness and roundness accompany a complex harmony. A wine capable of expressing, at the sip, that hospitality and those blends that deeply permeate Sicilian culture.
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Serve at:
08 - 10 °C.
Longevity:
03 - 05 years

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- Oenologist: Giuseppe Clementi
- Hectares: 120
Tenute Orestiadi is an ancient name that evokes distant myths and legends, that in fact amidst these lands found life thanks to Aeschylus, that more than 20 centuries ago wrote and brought to the stage the legend of ORESTES and of the ORESTIADI.
Tenute Orestiadi was awarded 3 gold medals at the International Mundus Wine Competition Spring Tasting 2021. Here are the medal-winning wines:
- 2018 Tenute Orestiadi II Bianco di Ludovico Riserva - Gold Medal
- 2020 Molino a Vento Nero d´Avola DOC Sicilia - Gold Medal
- 2020 Tenute Orestiadi Grillo DOC Sicilia - Gold Medal and Best of Show Sicilia white
It is with great pleasure that all the wines we submitted this year, 2024, to The Wine Hunter competition received awards.
Specifically:
- PaxMentis Syrah 2022 Gold Medal (awarded to wines scoring between 93 and 95.99)
- The Bianco di Ludovico 2021 Red Medal (awarded to wines scoring between 90 and 92.99)
-The Rosso di Ludovico 2020 Red Medal (awarded to wines with a score between 90 and 92.99)
- Nissim Grillo 2023 Red Medal (awarded to wines with a score between 90 and 92.99)
- Etna Rosso La Gelsomina 2023 Red Medal (awarded to wines with a score between 90 and 92.99) Read more


Name | Orestiadi Paxmentis Chardonnay e Viognier 2022 |
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Type | White still |
Denomination | Terre Siciliane IGT |
Vintage | 2022 |
Size | 0,75 l |
Alcohol content | 12.5% by volume |
Grape varieties | Chardonnay, Viognier |
Country | Italy |
Region | Sicily |
Vendor | Orestiadi |
Origin | Hills of the Belìce Valley |
Climate | Altitude: 250/450 m. a.s.l. |
Soil composition | White limestone soil. |
Harvest | Second/third decade of August. Manual harvesting in the morning. |
Wine making | Harvesting of the Chardonnay and Viognier grapes took place in mid to late August, in the very early hours of the morning, so that the grapes arrived in the cellar intact and not stressed by the high temperatures of the day. The musts were subjected to cryo-maceration at 4 °C for four to six hours, after which the grapes were softly pressed and transferred to settling tanks, where clarification took place. In March, Chardonnay and Viognier were blended, when the Winemaker felt they were ready to unite and definitively create the Paxmentis Bianco blend. |
Aging | The bottle saw the light of day some 16 months after vinification and after spending 10/12 months on the noble lees with daily batonnage, which gave the wine a unique character and an important structure, a prelude to longevity. |
Allergens | Contains sulphites |