Cervaro della Sala
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2034
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted poultry, rich fish dishes in cream sauces, and pasta dishes featuring mushrooms or truffles.
✨ Technical Specifications
Cervaro della Sala is a white wine produced by Marchesi Antinori at their Castello della Sala estate in Umbria, Italy. The wine is typically a blend of approximately 85% to 90% Chardonnay and 10% to 15% Grechetto. The vineyards are situated at elevations between 220 and 470 meters on soils composed of calcareous clay and marine fossils. The Chardonnay grapes undergo skin contact maceration followed by fermentation and aging in French oak barriques, where malolactic fermentation also occurs. The Grechetto is fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks. The components are then blended and aged in the bottle before release, resulting in a structured, age-worthy white wine.
🍾 About the Producer
Marchesi Antinori is one of the world's most storied winemaking dynasties, tracing its commercial viticultural heritage to 1385 when Giovanni di Piero Antinori matriculated into Florence's Arte dei Vinattieri. Spanning twenty-six generations, the family revolutionized modern Italian viticulture under Marchese Piero Antinori and legendary enologist Giacomo Tachis, catalyzing the Super Tuscan revolution with the pioneering release of Tignanello in 1971. Antinori commands an unrivaled tapestry of microclimates across Central Italy, encompassing the galestro and albarese marls of Chianti Classico at Tenuta Tignanello and Badia a Passignano, the maritime gravels of Bolgheri at Guado al Tasso, and the fossiliferous clay-limestone soils of Umbria at Castello della Sala. In the cellar, CEO and chief enologist Renzo Cotarella orchestrates a balance of precision, clonal selection, and judicious French oak barrique maturation. Antinori's benchmark wines—including the Sangiovese-driven Tignanello, the Cabernet-dominated Solaia, and the benchmark Umbrian Chardonnay blend Cervaro della Sala—stand as definitive monuments of Italian winemaking refinement.