▸ Quietly crisp.

▸ UNESCO chalk, river air.

▸ Grilled trout & herbs.

After a day in the city, this stainless-steel Cortese lands clean: blossom and green apple meet chalky minerality. River-cooled Monferrato slopes keep acidity high, so one glass refreshes as sharply as the next.

Vines sit on white chalk and loam in Monferrato’s UNESCO buffer, metres from the cellar. Cortese is hand-picked, spends two nights on skins, then rests six months in stainless steel—no oak, no insecticides. Expect blossom, pear and a fine saline finish.