PINOT GRIGIO

The Pinot Grigio of Montetondo is the estate's white wine offering beyond Soave — a 100% Pinot Grigio produced for the American market that demonstrates the variety's capacity for genuine character expression when grown in the specific conditions of the Veneto and vinified with the care and precision that Montetondo brings to all its productions.

Pinot Grigio is the most widely exported Italian white wine in the world — a variety of enormous commercial success that has, in its most serious expressions, genuine aromatic and structural quality. At Montetondo, the wine is produced through fermentation at controlled temperature of sixteen to eighteen degrees Celsius for approximately ten days — a low-temperature, extended fermentation that preserves the variety's most delicate aromatic compounds and produces a wine of genuine freshness and clarity rather than the flat, characterless style that less careful production at higher temperatures delivers.

The wine presents as straw yellow with green hues — the colour of a fresh, carefully produced Pinot Grigio that has preserved its chlorophyll-influenced greenish tint through the low-temperature handling. Pear, wildflowers, and a slight bread-crust note on the nose: the characteristic and appealing aromatic profile of well-made Pinot Grigio in its most complete expression — the fresh fruit and delicate floral dimension of the variety combined with the slight autolytic complexity that careful fermentation management develops.

This is Pinot Grigio produced with the seriousness that its market success sometimes obscures — a wine that delivers genuine quality alongside its inherent accessibility.

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