ONDINA 33'

Ondina 33' is one of the most poetic wines in the Tenuta Casali portfolio — a white wine of cold fermentation and extended batonnage ageing that carries in its name the image of a woman and the number thirty-three, a pairing that suggests both a specific person and a specific significance within the family's story. The estate's philosophy — like a painter portraying natural surroundings, like a musician playing and singing passion in creations, bottling the energy of nature — finds a particular expression in the personal names that appear on some of their most individual wines.

The production follows the estate's most careful white wine protocol: cold fermentation with soft pressing to preserve the delicate aromatic character of the Bianco variety, followed by eight months of ageing with several batonnage before bottling. Eight months is one of the longest lees contact periods in the estate's white wine range — a commitment that develops substantial texture, autolytic complexity, and the particular aromatic richness that extended fine lees contact consistently produces in white wines of genuine ambition.

The old fluvial terrace soils and the significant day-night temperature variation of the Romagna Apennine foothills provide the mineral foundation for this wine — the same conditions that give all the Casali estate's whites their characteristic freshness and mineral clarity, here developed over a longer period of lees contact into something of greater texture and greater aromatic depth than the shorter-aged expressions achieve.

Ondina 33' is the wine for those who appreciate white wines of genuine complexity and extended development — wines that carry the time and attention invested in their production visibly and pleasurably in the glass.

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