{"title":"Vini Sassara","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are proud to represent a thrilling new project that has garnered much excitement from us and our customers! Vini Sassara is a fourteen-hectare beautiful estate nestled in the hills of Valeggio sul Mincio in the Veneto, just south of Lake Garda, close to the town of Custoza at the southern end of the Bardolino DOC. (That's right - è arrivato il Bardolino naturale!) Ten hectares are dedicated to vines, while the other four are made up of woodlands and olive groves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the passionate work of Alessia Bertaiola and her husband, Stefano, a 3rd generation winemaker whose family has had this property for more than 50 years. Alessia and Stefano represent the 4th generation to work the morainic hill of Monte Mamaor. They took over the property in 2007, and with Alessia's strong background in agricultural research and development, quickly converted each plot to biodynamic farming. They have been making certified organic wine during that time, but due to a lack of inspiration, they took the plunge into producing a more naturalistic expression of their incredible fruit and soil, greatly inspired by the likes of Danillo Marcucci and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe area was once an ancient sea, and the hills were shaped by later glacial activity which left the soils rich in marine deposits and complexity of morainic sediment (Quartz, Granite, Calcarius, Alabaster, etc). Alessia and Stefano are blessed with mostly big, thick, sturdy old vines roughly 60 to 70 years old, with some younger vines they have planted themselves. Vine training is what's known as a \"Veronese double arch\", a variation on the double guyot. They grow all autochthonous grapes with red varieties such as Corvina, Rossanella, Rondinella, and Molinara; and white grapes like Fernanda, Moscato, Trebbianello, Trebbiano, Garganega, and Tocai.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are wines that represent a fight of two cultures - on the one hand, the highly lucrative modernistic culture of conventional, heavily extracted, \"international\" wines like Amarone and Valpolicella, and on the other, the fight \"for the soul and for the soil\" of the region, which are wines that express the true authenticity of Bardolino's past - wines that are full of bright, juicy, joyous fruit and minerality and speak of the people that have lived (and drunk wine!) there for centuries. Welcome to the past and future of Bardolino.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bardolino-goto-vini-sassara-natural-wine","title":"Sassara Bardolino Goto 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eBardolino Goto is a blend of Corvina, Rondinella, and Molinara grown on the morainic slopes of Monte Mamaor in Valeggio sul Mincio, at the southern edge of the Bardolino DOC in Veneto. The vineyard sits at roughly 200 meters elevation on soils built from ancient seabed deposits and glacial sediment left by the glaciers that formed Lake Garda. \"Goto\" is local Veronese dialect for a glass of wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts, 6 days of skin maceration in fiberglass tanks without temperature control. The wine ages in fiberglass, then bottled unfined, unfiltered, with no added sulfites. It is a certified organic wine from a property farmed biodynamically since 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a wine in the old Bardolino tradition: light-bodied, translucent ruby, with bright acidity, low tannins, and a mineral freshness that reflects the glacial soils. It drinks well slightly chilled and is a direct counterpoint to the heavy, extracted style that dominates commercial production in the surrounding Veneto.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vini Sassara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40529023369415,"sku":"SASSBARD20C","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/sassara-bardolino-natural-wine-primal-wine-natural-wine-primal-wine-copyright.png?v=1781215097"},{"product_id":"chiaretto-ciaro-vini-sassara-natural-wine","title":"Vini Sassara Chiaretto Ciaro 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eChiaretto Ciaro is a direct-press rosé made from Corvina, Rondinella, and Molinara grown on the morainic hill of Monte Mamaor in Valeggio sul Mincio, within the Bardolino DOC of the Veneto. The vineyard sits at roughly 200 meters elevation on glacially deposited soils of gravel, quartz, limestone, and clay. \"Ciaro\" means light color in the local dialect, a nod to the pale, translucent hue produced by pressing the grapes without skin contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts in fiberglass tank. The wine sees no skin maceration, no fining, no filtration, and no added sulfites or chemical products. At 11% ABV it is one of the lightest expressions of the Chiaretto style, dry and driven by acidity over weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a wine with fresh red berry fruit, citrus zest, and a distinct saline minerality that traces directly to the mineral-dense morainic soils around Lake Garda. It drinks like a serious rosé from a producer who treats the appellation as a blank slate rather than a commercial formula.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vini Sassara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40529238982855,"sku":"SASSCIAR20C","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/sassara-chiaretto-ciaro-natural-wine-primal-wine-natural-wine-primal-wine-copyright.png?v=1781215091"},{"product_id":"esotico-vini-sassara-natural-wine","title":"Vini Sassara Esotico 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eEsotico is a field blend co-ferment of 30% red grapes (Corvina, Rossanella, Rondinella, Molinara) and 70% white grapes (Fernanda, Moscato, Trebbianello, Trebbiano, Garganega, Tocai) grown on old vines at Vini Sassara's 10-hectare site on Monte Mamaor, a morainic hill in Valeggio sul Mincio at roughly 200 meters elevation, within the Bardolino DOC in Veneto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll grapes are hand-harvested and spontaneously co-fermented together with 10 days of skin maceration in fiberglass tank, without temperature control. The wine is aged in stainless steel, then bottled unfined, unfiltered, with no added sulfites and no added yeast. The result sits in an ambiguous color range between deep salmon and copper-orange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe soils at Monte Mamaor are morainic in origin, a mix of ancient marine deposits and glacially transported sediment including quartz, granite, limestone, and alabaster, all of which register in the wine's saline, mineral character. The vines themselves are roughly 50 to 60 years old, giving concentrated fruit at naturally low yields.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vini Sassara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40529281220807,"sku":"SASSESOT20C","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/sassara-esotico-pet-nat-rose-natural-wine-primal-wine-natural-wine-primal-wine-copyright.png?v=1781215070"},{"product_id":"misia-vini-sassara-natural-wine","title":"Vini Sassara Misia' 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eVini Sassara Misia' is a white natural wine made from a blend of Trebbiano, Garganega, and Tocai. Spontaneous fermentation with native yeast, 3-day maceration on the skins, bottled unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites. \"Misia'\" means \"blended\" in the local dialect. Awesome, I'm from that area.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vini Sassara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40529319592135,"sku":"SASSMISI20C","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/sassara-misia-natural-wine-primal-wine-natural-wine-primal-wine-copyright.png?v=1781215061"},{"product_id":"coconar-orange-sassara-natural-wine","title":"Vini Sassara Coconar Orange 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eVini Sassara Coconar Orange is a skin-contact natural wine made from 100% Garganega. Spontaneous fermentation with native yeast, extended maceration on the skins, bottled unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vini Sassara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42410543546584,"sku":"SASSCOCO20C","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/sassara-coconar-vin-de-ua-natural-wine-primal-wine-natural-wine-primal-wine-copyright.png?v=1781215082"},{"product_id":"vin-de-anfoa-sassara-natural-wine","title":"Vini Sassara Vin de Anfoa Orange 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eVini Sassara Vin de Anfoa Orange is a skin-contact natural wine made from 100% Garganega. Spontaneous fermentation with native yeast, 60-day maceration on the skins in amphora, bottled unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vini Sassara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42410566320344,"sku":"SASSANFO20C","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/sassara-vin-de-anfoa-natural-wine-primal-wine-natural-wine-primal-wine-copyright.png?v=1781215051"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/vini-sassara.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}