SLOW WINE GUIDE 2022 - SLOW FOOD EDITORE

SLOW WINE 2022 GUIDE

Slow Food Editore – 1958 reviewed wineries. 750 wineries awarded as Top Wine.

LIFE – Our first thought goes to Albino Piona, who sadly passed away during this difficult year: it's now up to his offspring, Monica, Massimo and Alessandro, to continue his work. He has succeeded in making of his winery a reference point among the Garda wine culture. <<It's a team play, a nice play>>, Monica says referring to them and the support of Damiano Peroni, a young and worthy enologist.

VINEYARDS – Their 45 hectares are divided into four plots and are mostly dedicated to the grapes for Custoza and Bardolino. The morainic soils show different features: more clayey in Valeggio, with morainic gravel in Villafranca, alluvial-morainic in Sona.

WINES – Their wines are the fruit of a meticulous attention to the ripeness of grapes on the field: <<It's not a banal choice; it requires a huge attention, in particular for Reserve Wines>>, Monica says. The Pionas are constantly pursuing quality in the full respect of the grapes - even during the wine-making process, thus resulting in distinctive wines.

TOP Custoza Superiore Campo del Selese 2019 VINO QUOTIDIANO – 6,000 bottles.

It proves all the refinement potential of Custoza. Slightly mineral and outstandingly sapid, it can be enjoyed every day granting great satisfaction.

Bardolino Chiaretto 2020 – 15,000 bottles.

Its inviting coral red and its scent of wild strawberry are a clear expression of this territory; sapid and clean in the mouth.

Bardolino 2020 – 15,000 bottles.

The ideal wine for summertime thanks to its fresh spicy taste recalling cloves to the nose, its clean sip and its lively tannins, still not invasive.

Custoza 2020 – 100,000 bottles.

Soft, sapid, fruity.

Verde Piona 2019 – 30,000 bottles.

Sparkling wine – Refined in the bottle on its lees, sapid, herbaceous, peppy.

Corvina 2016 – 6,000 bottles.

Spicy, fresh, energetic.

 

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