Askos Verdeca, 2024
Tropical fruit, lime zest and honey provides for a long finish balanced with minerality and salinity.
Importer: Vinoteka Co., Ltd, MST 0313789985 · Seller: The Wine Vault Co., Ltd, MST 0315864130
Not for persons under 18 or pregnant women.
About this wine
Wine Style:
Fresh, soft, great minerality with tropical fruit.
Tasting Notes:
Peach, citrus, lemon, lime, a very unexpected cream. Well structured, rich, bodied.
Sommelier's advice:
seafood
Vineyards:
over 20 years old vines, sandy calcareous soil, grapes harvested beginning of September.
Maturation:
Fermentationi in stainless steel tanks at a controlled temperature between 11° C and 15° C
Winemaking process:
The grapes come from vines over 20 years old on sandy, calcareous soils and are picked in early September. After soft pressing they ferment in temperature-controlled stainless steel and rest a few months in tank. The Askos range, named after a small 1st-century BC Greek clay wine jug, revives near-forgotten Apulian grapes.
Vinoteka's note
Verdeca is Puglia's old native white, for centuries sold off as a base for vermouth; Li Veli bottles it on its own under the Askos label, named after a Greek wine vessel of the 1st century BC. Twenty-year-old vines on sandy-calcareous soils, fermented cool in steel, no wood. Green-gold in the glass, with a salty nose, lively acidity and a long saline finish. Serve at 10–12 °C with sea bass baked in salt, spaghetti with mussels or burrata.
Written by the Vinoteka team from the producer's technical sheet.
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