Valli Unite Bianchino NV

Valli Unite Bianchino NVDirect Press Selection October 2022 100% Cortese from the fun loving crunchy crew at Valli Unite, a 100 hectare commune in the Tortonesi hills. About a quarter of that property is vines, the rest is a polycultural farm, so there's honey and salami being made along with wine. Started in the late 1970s, it's Italy's first natural wine cooperative and now includes 30 members who believe natural vinification is a social responsibility. The Bianchino

There is a really lovely tightrope walk between the sultry

I had never tasted any natural wines from Alentejo until recently

Ian Atkins found his way to wine after serving in the Army and then working at a restaurant started by his wife and brother-in-law in El Paso

Then in 1997

and steep hills made of rocky clay-limestone soils

and elegant

It smells so enticing

Personality: A complex and vinous nose of apple pie

is cultivated mostly on limestone soils in this colder area of Greece near Albania

All this is constructed on top of very fine

Before that

Definitely a red wine that will be even more delicious with a little chill