Pernice

Count Augusto Carlo Giorgi of Vistarino was the first to import into Italy in 1850 the Pinot Noir grapes from France by planting them in the vineyard of his Tenuta Rocca de Giorgi, owned by his family since 1674. Through the years and generations the spirit remained the same enthusiast of the beginning, and today the farm extends for 826 hectares of which 200 are vineyards, covering almost the entire territory of the Municipality of Rocca dè Giorgi on the hills of the Oltrepò Pavese in Lombardy, always respecting its typical biodiversity. With the guidance of Ottavia Giorgi of Vistarino wine production has increasingly gone towards the pursuit of quality and environmental sustainability in the sign of the best maintenance of those so prosperous lands. The investment in the technological innovation of the winery in the last 5 years has allowed the company to produce wines of great qualitative level from the vinification of Pinot Noir in red and in white for the spumante bases, preferred by the best Italian sparkling wine companies.

The Pernice cru is the maximum expression of the Conte Vistarino winery, whose grapes come from a single hillside vineyard of 3.5 hectares facing south on a calcareous soil rich in clay, sand and gravel. The harvest is manual, and the carefully selected bunches are destemmed before fermentation with maceration. Following the refinement in barriques and bottling without filtration, with another year in the bottle for the wine that will be marketed 40 months after harvest. All this complexity and accuracy gives life to an intense and structured wine, with a pleasant minerality and a long and persistent finish.

Region: Lombardy

Year: 2021

Alcohol content: 14,5%

Volume: 75 cl.

Winery: Conte Vistarino

Grape: Pinot Noir

Name: Pinot Nero IGT Provincia di Pavia

Pairing: Game, mushrooms, aged cheeses and roast meats.