Babo Pinot Grigio 2022

Babo Pinot Grigio is a Friulian white given eight hours of skin contact in the press and eight months on lees.

Friuli, in the far north-east of Italy, has a long-standing reputation for the country's best white wines, built on the gap between warm days and cold nights in the growing season, which allows a long, slow ripening. The fruit for this wine comes from a 30-year-old site at San Martino al Tagliamento, near Pordenone, at the foot of the Alps, where the soils are a mix of clay and alpine gravel laid down by alluvial deposits. Pinot Gris from Friuli generally carries more flesh than the versions grown in the Veneto or Trentino, and the winemaker Justin Bubb underlines that by allowing eight hours of skin contact in the press. Fermentation is in stainless steel tanks and the wine then rests on lees for eight months before bottling, which gives it texture without obscuring the fruit.

Drink it within two or three years, with grilled white fish, prosciutto and melon, or a risotto. Serve at 10–12°C.

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