Lazio, Italy

Procanico, Rossetto, and Malvasia Bianca grapes

Great orange wine with notes of ripe white fruit and honeysuckle.

Bianco Perso is a skin-contact wine made from a blend of Lazio indigenous varietals; Procanico, Rossetto, and Malvasia Bianca. The grapes are planted on volcanic soils in Montefiascone, near Lake Bolsena. The grapes are fermented spontaneously for 14 days with their skins in cement vats; the wine is aged in cement and steel tanks for about 6 months; bottled unfined, unfiltered, with minimal added sulfites.