Pinot Grigio Villa Russiz 2025
The Pinot Grigio from the renowned winery Villa Russiz is a fresh and crisp white wine perfect for starting an evening with friends. The namesake grapes are hand-harvested from vineyards located on various hills in the Collio area, and the wine ages for 9 months in steel tanks before being bottled. The straw yellow color shines in the glass and the aromas released recall crisp pear, peach, and white flowers. The sip is agile, mineral, full, fruity, and has a finish of excellent taste balance.
The Pinot Grigio from Villa Russiz is a soft and fruity white, which perfectly expresses the personality of this French grape variety, introduced in the Friuli region towards the end of the nineteenth century. In the Collio Goriziano area, bordering the Slovenian Brda region, it has found the best conditions to express itself at excellent quality levels, which distinguish it from the vast plain production due to the intensity of aromas and elegance. It is a very versatile wine at the table, pairing very well with first courses based on vegetables, ricotta and spinach ravioli, Cjarsons from Carnia, and delicate white meats.
The Pinot Grigio wine is the fruit of one of the most representative realities of the great tradition of Collio. Villa Russiz was founded towards the end of the nineteenth century and still today produces great wines capable of expressing in an authentic way the characteristics of the terroir. The vineyards are located in the hilly area near the winery, with a sunny exposure facing south, west, and east. The mild and breezy climate, and the soils composed of marl, sandstone, and limestone, called ponca in Friulian, have always been the cradleof white grape varieties. The best bunches are hand-harvested at full ripeness, during the early hours of the morning, and are quickly transported to the winery. After a gentle pressing, the free-run must ferments in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. After aging in steel tanks on the fine lees for 8-9 months, the wine is bottled.
The Pinot Grigio from Villa Russiz is a white wine highly appreciated for its seductive pleasantness, which has led to extraordinary success in international markets. Immediate and expressive, it captivates from the first sip with its particularly generous fruit. In appearance, it has a bright straw-yellow color. Intense and rich, it reveals fragrant aromas of white-fleshed fruit, ripe peach, Williams pear, green apple, delicate hints of hawthorn and wildflowers, notes of medicinal herbs and soft spices. On the palate, it has a good body, with broad, soft, and enveloping aromas, a ripe fruit of great richness, leading to a harmonious finish, characterized by balanced freshness and sapidity.