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Pinot Grigio delle Venezie Fattori Valparadiso 2023
With lovely pear and apple fresh green-fruit flavours, this classic Italian white has good texture with a chalky mineral edge that elevates the wine and makes it great both by the glass or with food.
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Code: IT41261
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 1 - Bone dry
- Pinot Gris
- 75cl
- Now to 2025
- 13% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, natural
Antonio Fattori
The Fattori family have been producing wine in the Soave region in Veneto, north-east Italy, since the turn of the 20th century. It began with grandfather Antonio Fattori, who planted 17 acres of vines in the hills around the village of Terrossa, so called because of the often reddish basalt soils in the area. Antonio was a wonderful character with a passion for the land around him, and is remembered fondly by his son and grandson (both also named Antonio) for going everywhere barefoot, and insisting on always washing outdoors.
Although the area was not a particularly affluent one, grandfather Antonio sold the sweet wines he made to local bars and restaurants, delivering the bottles by horse and cart. It wasn’t an easy enterprise: when Antonio returned from fighting in the First World War, he found all his vines had been destroyed by phylloxera. Still he persevered, and in 1970 his son took over operations.
The second generation was equally restricted by funds, and yet it was this Antonio who built the winery, which has been in use since his first year in charge. He is remembered as a generous and charitable man, low on funds but always big on kindness.
It was his son – the current generation, which has been in charge since 1979 – who was the first of the family to study wine academically, although the youngest Antonio admits it felt as though his destiny to do so was set from birth. He studied both at the University of Conegliano and the University of Dijon, and has been...