Clos Venturi : "1769" 2024

Tasting characteristics and advice for the 2024 "1769" cuvée from Clos Venturi

Tasting

Color
Beautiful straw-yellow color.

Nose
The nose is fruity (vineyard peaches, pears) and floral (white flowers).

Palate
The palate combines balance and freshness with an aromatic expression echoing the nose.

A Corse white wine imbued with liveliness and gpourmandise

The estate

Located in the high-altitude village of Ponte Leccia, Clos Venturi is one of the most recent estates in Corse, born in the early 2000s from the parceling out of the best terroirs of the Vico estate, another property of Jean-Marc and Manu Venturi.

The vineyard

This estate in Corse oversees a vineyard of about twenty hectares.

The wine

"1769" is a a Corse white wine from a south/southeast-facing terroir, located at the bottom of the slope and resting on soils composed of sandstone.

Winemaking and aging

Hand-harvested, the grapes are 100% destemmed before skin maceration. Pneumatic pressing then fermentation in concrete tanks with indigenous yeasts. Aging lasts 6 months on fine lees in concrete tanks, with manual lees stirring and natural clarification.

Grape variety

100 % vermentinu.