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Bastianich Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Bastianich

Bastianich Vespa Bianco 2021

White still

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Bastianich Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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Denomination Venezia Giulia IGT
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 13.5% by volume
Area Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy)
Grape varieties 45% Chardonnay, 45% Sauvignon, 10% Picolit
Aging After fermentation, retaining most of the yeasts, a long period of 'batonnage' and subsequent bottling begins. Bottle ageing completes the wine before it is marketed.
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Description

Vespa Bianco was created to emphasise the power and balance that a great Friulian white can achieve, with uncommon complexity and longevity.

Awards

  • 2021

    92

    /100

    James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.

  • 2021

    92

    /100

    The prestigious international wine guide from the renowned Robert Parker, the world's most experienced and trusted wine taster.

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Perfume

Perfume

On the nose hints of beeswax, apricots, and honey give the wine an immediate, fresh, though structured impact.

Color

Color

Nuances of both yellow and antique gold hues, with extraordinary brightness and clari ty.

Taste

Taste

On the palate, all the wine's complexity, envelopment, silkiness and structure expand with incredible finesse and elegance, creating sensations of caressing voluptuousness. It is a unique wine when aged for several years, for example, for more than ten yers.

Serve at:

12 - 14 °C.

Longevity:

05 - 10 years

Full Bodied and Aged White Wines

Producer
Bastianich
From this winery
  • Start up year: 1997
  • Oenologist: Emilio del Medico, Maurizio Castelli
  • Bottles produced: 215.000
  • Hectares: 30
The deep connection that the Bastianich family has with the world of wine takes us back decades and generations. In fact, it goes back to the encounters with the most important winemaking families in the 1970s and 1980s and the promotion of the best Friulian wines on the menus of the family's various restaurants in the United States. It was precisely this passion for wine, combined with the desire to rediscover and rediscover their origins, that led the Bastianich family, in 1997, to plant the first vineyards in Buttrio and Cividale del Friuli, in one of Italy's most vocated areas for the production of white wines.

Bastianich has owned the vineyards since 1997. The vineyards are in two distinct areas of the DOC Colli Orientali del Friuli. The first vineyard is situated on the Buttrio and Premariacco hills, in the hottest and southernmost region of the DOC. Influenced by the warmth coming from the sea, it provides the grapes for the production of our full-bodied and structured Cru wines, such as Vespa Bianco, Vespa Rosso, Plus and Calabrone. The second vineyard, which is located in the hills of Cividale del Friuli, is influenced by the Bora, the cold wind from the north, which produces wines of greater aromatic intensity during the coldest nights. Read more
Production area: Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Bastianich

Vespa matches perfectly with shellfish and crustaceans, although it easily accompanies an y kind of white meat and robust preparations (even smoked).

Fish
Shellfish
Cheese
Matured cheese
Poultry
Veal
Oily fish

Name Bastianich Vespa Bianco 2021
Type White still
Denomination Venezia Giulia IGT
Vintage 2021
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 13.5% by volume
Grape varieties 45% Chardonnay, 45% Sauvignon, 10% Picolit
Country Italy
Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Vendor Bastianich
Story The flagship of Bastianich company, the Vespa Bianco, was created to highlight the power and evolution a great Friulian white can achieve. The Vespa manages to transcend the sum of its parts, confirming a wine of outstanding complexity and longevity.
Origin Hills of Premariacco and Cividale (Udine).
Climate Altitude: 130 60 m a.s.l. Exposure: South, South-East, South-West.
Soil composition Eocene marl, limestone-based.
Plants per hectare 4,000-8,000
Yield per hectare 6,000-7,000 kg/hectare
Harvest Depending on the variety, from the first decade of September to the second decade of October.
Wine making Each grape variety is harvested separately when it has reached optimum ripeness. The grapes are sorted on sorting benches before gently pressing, resulting in a first must and press must. Subsequently, the two batches of must are blended to start alcoholic fermentation. The varieties that make up Vespa Bianco ferment separately, about 50% in temperature-controlled stainless steel and the remaining 50% in 5 and 40-hectolitre oak casks.
Aging After fermentation, retaining most of the yeasts, a long period of 'batonnage' and subsequent bottling begins. Bottle ageing completes the wine before it is marketed.
Allergens Contains sulphites