Bianco Le Coste 2019

Bianco Le Coste is a skin-contact orange wine from Gradoli, a village in northern Lazio's province of Viterbo, roughly 140 kilometers north of Rome at 450 meters above sea level on the volcanic slopes overlooking Lake Bolsena. The blend is led by Procanico (the local name for Trebbiano Toscano, approximately 70%) with Malvasia, Roscetto, Pedino, Romanesco, and Ansonica sourced from 50-year-old vines grown in loose, friable volcanic soils rich in iron and minerals.

After hand harvesting and destemming, the grapes undergo around two weeks of skin maceration. The fermenting juice is then pressed into old neutral barrels, where it finishes fermentation with indigenous yeasts and rests for approximately one year. The wine is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and with no added sulfites.

The result is an amber-hued wine with lifted citrus zest aromatics, a saline mineral finish, and fine tannin structure from the extended skin contact. Bright acidity and a dry herbal note run through the palate. This is the flagship white from Le Coste and represents the estate's clearest expression of northern Lazio's indigenous grape varieties and volcanic terroir.