Why Friuli Sets the Bar with Pinot Grigio - A Tasting Note on Ca' del Sarto

The warm weather is in full swing and I am personally reaching for many of my Italian white wines, rosé, sparkling wines.  This week I tasted the 2023 Ca’ del Sarto Pinot Grigio from the Fr iuli DOC of northeastern Italy.  If you’ve been following along my journey you already know that I love the white wines of northern Italy, but after my trip a few years back to the Friuli wine region I have a deeper respect for what the producers are doing in this tiny nook of It aly.   Yes Pinot Grigio is probably one of Italy’s most popular white grapes, but Pinot Grigio isn’t just Pinot Grigio if you’ve had the quality and variety of Pinot Grigio produced in the northeastern part of Italy.  You can take a look back at my tasting of Pinot Grigio in Friuli and you’ll see just from the color of the Pinot Grigi o in the glass that producers can produce many different styles of Pinot Grigio.  If you break outside the mold of the all mass marketed Pinot Grigio sold on the marke

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