Cantina Corte Mainente - Bianco Secco Veronese 2021 (750ml)
Price: $19.99
| Producer | Cantina Corte Mainente |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Veneto |
| Varietal | Garganega |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 66393 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Cantina Corte Mainente Description
403cs produced!
Four Hundred and three cases for the world. That's pretty cool.
With less than ten hectares of vines, Mainente’s wines are largely unknown outside the region, but with the recent addition of Ugo’s two sons to the family Corte, this is all about to change. Their latest vintages have received top marks from Jancis Robinson, Gambero Rosso, Falstaff, Wine Enthusiast, and Decanter, and in 2019, Forbes named their Soave one of the “Best Italian Wines of the Year.”
Work in the cellar is clean, but no-frills, with the Mainente brothers preferring concrete over inox (when possible) but experimenting with larger casks for certain cuvées. For our opening order, they agreed to let us pick our favorite Soave vineyard from their holdings, and create a bottling exclusively for the US, which we chose to declassify to “Bianco Veronese IGT” to highlight the larger Verona region over the Byzantine Soave and her 33 recognized crus.
Giorgio Gioco was the famous chef and owner of 12 Apostoli in Verona whose handwriting adorned Quintarelli’s original hand-drawn labels. Giorgio and his wife Jole earned two of the first Michelin stars in Italy, and today their 300-year-old restaurant is still considered the pinnacle of classic Veronese gastronomy. He is also a longtime friend of Ugo Mainente, and at special family gatherings, Ugo spends four days making Gioco’s recipe for Polenta e Bacalà, a classic dish of the Veneto, and a brilliant match with his insanely delicious Garganega-based white. After sharing this dish with Ugo’s son Davide earlier this year, we agreed to design a label for our US bottling that would pay homage to this handmade spirit of their work.
