{"title":"I Castagnucoli","description":"\u003cp\u003eHigh above Cinto Euganeo, in the hamlet of Cornoleda, Nicola Dal Santo works a sliver of vineyard in the volcanic Colli Euganei, making natural wines that continue a family path begun decades ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDal Santo's parents bought the land in 1974 and always made wine, mostly in bulk, while farming without chemicals and with care for the surrounding environment. His father turned to spontaneous fermentation in the 1980s, a choice that meant breaking with conventional cellar thinking. Trained as an archaeologist, Nicola returned to the land in 2010 after university to carry on his father's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/i-castagnucoli\"\u003eI Castagnucoli producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"glera-pet-nat-i-castagnucoli-natural-wine","title":"I Castagnucoli Glera Still 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eI Castagnucoli's Glera Still is 100% Glera from the southern Colli Euganei, farmed by Nicola Dal Santo on roughly 2.5 hectares of vineyards around Cinto Euganeo. The parcels sit on mixed soils — volcanic basalt and trachyte on the higher elevations, with calcareous limestone and marl on the lower slopes — giving the wine a mineral backbone uncommon in Glera made elsewhere. In the Colli Euganei, Glera is known locally as Serprina, a biotype distinct from the Treviso Prosecco grape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the cellar, nothing is added and nothing is removed. Fermentation happens with native yeasts, the wine is destemmed by hand, moved without pumps, and bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfur. The result is a still white wine — a rare format for Glera, which is almost always made sparkling — that shows the grape without the cushion of bubbles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpect a pale straw color, high natural acidity, and aromas of white peach, green apple, lemon peel, and white flowers. On the palate the wine is light-bodied and dry with a clean, slightly saline finish shaped by the volcanic soils. It is best consumed young, when the fruit is at its freshest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I Castagnucoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36969289515160,"sku":"CASTGLER19","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/i-castagnucoli-glera-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780186790"},{"product_id":"moscato-giallo-i-castagnucoli-natural-wine","title":"I Castagnucoli Moscato Giallo 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eI Castagnucoli's Moscato Giallo comes from Cinto Euganeo in the southern Colli Euganei, where Nicola Dal Santo farms 3.6 hectares of mixed land — vines alongside olive groves, orchard, vegetable plots, and forest. The soils beneath his vines are split between ancient calcareous limestone, formed from a prehistoric seabed, and volcanic trachyte and basalt, pushed up roughly 30 million years ago when volcanoes emerged from that same sea. This geological duality is a defining feature of the Euganean Hills appellation and drives the mineral character in the wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoscato Giallo, also known as Fior d'Arancio in Colli Euganei, is naturally a highly aromatic grape with thick skins and high terpene content — linalool, geraniol, and citronellol give it signature floral, citrus, and stone fruit aromatics. Vinified completely dry here, the grape's inherent perfume is stripped of its usual sweetness, leaving behind a saline, taut white wine rather than the passito or sparkling styles the variety is most commonly associated with in this appellation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the cellar, Nicola works with minimal intervention: spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, no temperature control, aging in small vessels of steel, wood, or clay depending on the wine. No fining, no filtration, no added sulfites. Grapes are destemmed by hand and moved without pumps. This is a wine made without the safety nets of conventional enology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I Castagnucoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36969418817688,"sku":"CASTMOSC19","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/i-castagnucoli-moscato-giallo-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780186787"},{"product_id":"i-castagnucoli-un-litro-di-bianco-2024","title":"I Castagnucoli Un Litro di Bianco 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e I Castagnucoli is run by Nicola Dal Santo in the National Park Colli Euganei near Padova.   The 2024 Un Litro di Bianco is a blend of 70% Glera, 15% Moscato Giallo and 15% Chardonnay from organic farming, hand-harvested, macerated on the skins for 6 days, then fermented and aged in fiberglass, unfined, unfiltered, with no additions.   The farm covers 3.6 hectares of vineyards, olive groves, vegetables, orchard and forest, certified organic since 1992. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I Castagnucoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52220135637208,"sku":"CASTAG-LITROBIAN","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/tmput79wy_k.png?v=1786438882"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/i-castagnucoli.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}