Balestri Valda Soave Classico DOC ‘Sengialta’ 2021 Spain dried apricots

dried apricots

Whatever you call it

Powdery tannins

Pafritas stands out by frying Spanish potatoes in 100% virgin olive oil from a nearby estate in Quel and sprinkling them with 1% Mediterranean sea salt from Alicante

Balestri Valda Soave Classico DOC ‘Sengialta’ 2021 Spain dried apricots'Sengialta' is a tiny cru vineyard enclosed by forest and a rugged cliff face, home to many of Laura's beehives and her best fruit. What a wine! It is 70% old vine Garganega and 30% Trebbiano di Soave hand harvested, separately fermented and matured in neutral 2000 litre botti (large, upright oak barrels) for two years. The 2020 Sengialta is fabulously complex and a lesson in texture, with aromas of lime skin, yellow orchard fruit and bursts of white