Collio Chardonnay "Sassi Cavi" - Collavini

€20,57

Collio Chardonnay "Sassi Cavi" - Collavini

Name: Collio Chardonnay "Sassi Cavi" - Collavini
Brand: Collavini
Price: 20.57 EUR
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Collio DOC·Chardonnay(75 cl)

€20,57

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Food pairing

Poultry Fish Pasta & risotto Aged cheese

Serve with roast chicken, veal, baked fish in butter, creamy risotto and medium-aged cheeses.

How to serve it

Temperature8-10 °C

GlassMedium tulip glass

The wine

Denomination: Collio DOC
Region: Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Country: Italy
Bottle size: 0.75 L
Allergens: Contains sulfites

Tasting notes

Straw yellow with golden lights. The nose moves from ripe golden apple and white peach toward hazelnut and a faint buttery note. The palate is broad and textured yet firmly dry, a stony, almost flinty undertone running beneath the fruit, with good acidity carrying a long and gently nutty finish.

About this wine

Wine-growers since 1896, the Collavini family works from a sixteenth-century villa at Corno di Rosazzo, on the Friulian side of the Collio hills.

"Sassi Cavi" is the estate's Collio Chardonnay, and the name points at the ground it grows on: the quarried, stony marl of these slopes, poor in organic matter and quick to drain, which holds yields down and concentrates what the vine does ripen. Collio lies close enough to the Adriatic to catch the sea breeze, while the Julian Alps shelter it from the north — and that daily swing between warm afternoons and cool nights is what gives Friulian Chardonnay its definition.

The style is Friulian rather than Burgundian: fruit and minerality first, oak kept well in the background.