Description
Slogan:
A new project, a new adventure, all female.
Tasting Note:
"Deep ruby red, fruit driven bouquet bursting with flavors of black currant and raspberry, followed by mature plums and gentian texture.
The palate is full and elegant. Full bodied and lingering wine with an underlying exuberance. Environment friendly techniques used."
- Vigna Petrussa
Awards:
Vinous 92 Points (Vintage 2016)
Dominant Flavor:
Black Currant, Raspberry
Food Matching:
Aged Cheese, Cold Sliced Meat, Salami, Roast Red Meat, Game, Pork Ribs, Chop Suey, Asian Noodles, Baba Ganoush
Overview:
For three generations, we women of Vigna Petrussa have been creating, with great passion and love, wines with a strong personality and character, respecting our traditions and territory. An all-female 'boutique winery' in the Colli Orientali del Friuli.
An interweaving of tradition and new ideas, of past and future, of love and intuition. Three generations of women with their hands in the vineyard and their hearts in the cellar.
Over 50 years of vines to listen to and wines of the territory to tell.
The pioneer was grandmother Giuseppina. It is thanks to her that the roots of our company have been firmly planted: widowed at a young age, she was able to take over the reins of the family business, which, among its various agricultural tasks, also dealt with the cultivation of grapes as early as the mid-19th century. With grit and tenacity, she began to make significant changes in both the production and distribution of wines.
Then it was the turn of Hilde Petrussa, Giuseppina's daughter, who, attracted by her roots and having reached a turning point in her life, decided in 1995 to leave her work in another field to devote herself full-time to the family business. She was able to introduce a new wave of energy and ideas, aimed at enhancing the environment and the land. He rearranged the vineyards, favouring native qualities, made new plantings with guyot training, increased the number of vines per hectare and decided to grass the entire vineyard area.
After 25 years, we welcomed the third generation of women into the winery, when Francesca Mecchia decided to join her mother Hilde, introducing new elements, especially in terms of image, thanks to her training as an architect, and continuing the winery's activities with the same passion and enthusiasm.
A new project, a new adventure, all female.