Denavolo "Ciliegia" Vino Bianco 2022

Denavolo "Ciliegia" Vino Bianco 2022Press 4 White September 2025 Direct Press Selection Giulio Armani, the winemaker at La Stoppa, started his own project, name Denavolo, in 2005. He had begun learning winemaking from Rafael Pantaleoni at La Stoppa in 1980 when Giulio was still basically a child. At La Stoppa he learned the art of natural winemaking and viticulture, making skin contact wines as far back as 2001 when it was far from trendy. Denavolo is only about three hectares of vines

who is more known for their swoon-worthy sparkling reds that come from the tiny Cerdon du Bugey village of Mérignat where the Renardarts have been vignerons for 7 generations

practice polyculture to nurture and enrich the ecosystem of their vineyard

fermented in stainless steel vats

I feel that this wine is an unsung benchmark for Spanish Garnacha

and Friulano

But after it opens up it almost reads like Sangiovese with its black cherry

Glinavos' patriarch is Lefteris Glinavos

which is a stat I've never seen before on a wine bottle

winemaker Giulio Armani crafts this snappy and characterful white with an eye towards minimal cellar intervention and maximum expressiveness of the region's traditional varieties

Grassy and lemony on the nose

changing hands politically from the Hungarians

losing water and wrinkling through a natural concentration process