Miani, Sauvignon Blanc Zitelle, 2023 outofstock-34467840057 and it feels like a

and it feels like a secret shared

partial whole-cluster

and aim it at anything spicy or fried

tends every vine obsessively by hand

yet with his own distinctive touch

Miani, Sauvignon Blanc Zitelle, 2023 outofstock-34467840057 and it feels like aZitelle is one of the vineyards that made people rethink what Sauvignon could be in Italy. Miani's single vineyard Sauvignons are among the most chased after whites in the country, made in quantities that barely qualify as commercial, and Zitelle is a steep parcel of ponca marl and sandstone farmed by Enzo Pontoni with a level of obsession that borders on the medical. What comes out is Sauvignon with muscle, not the zippy green version: ripe stone