Cervaro Sala Bianco
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2034
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Rich seafood dishes such as butter-poached lobster, creamy pasta or risotto with chanterelle mushrooms, and roasted poultry like herb-crusted chicken.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted at the historic 14th-century Castello della Sala fortress in Umbria, Cervaro della Sala is a legendary Italian white born from the visionary collaboration between Marchese Piero Antinori and winemaker Renzo Cotarella in 1985. Seeking to create a white wine with exceptional aging potential that could rival the world's finest, they combined Chardonnay with the indigenous Umbrian variety Grechetto. The Chardonnay grapes are fermented and aged in French oak barriques on their lees, while the Grechetto is vinified in stainless steel to preserve its vibrant acidity and local character. The estate's soils, rich in marine fossils and clay, combined with a cool microclimate, impart a distinct mineral backbone, rich structure, and complex notes of citrus, toasted hazelnut, and white flowers.
🍾 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.