Tasting Notes: The Dettori Renosu Bianco is mostly Vermentino with a touch of Moscato. Wildly tropical on the nose, with banana, passion fruit and dragon fruit, a touch of salinity for balance and a ripe and fleshy mouthfeel that is both savory and exotic.
Estate History: Tenute Dettori is headed by Alessandro Dettori, who began working with his father in 1990 from a family estate that has been growing grapes and producing wine since the 19th century. From the start, the focus has always been on local grapes and the old techniques, and they are not shy about declaring themselves as a winery more interested in keeping the history of the region in the bottle then following trends. Every bottle has the following back label ‘warning’: “In our winemaking, we do not make any use of any synthetic chemicals apart from sulphur: no added yeasts, no enzymes, or any other adjuvant either in fermentation or in maturation. The wine is neither filtered, clarified, or barriqued, was fermented and aged in traditional concrete vats. Every bottle can be different. We do not use international grape varieties to smooth out our wines. We are modest-sized artisans of the earth. You will understand, then, when we say that we do not follow the dictates of the market, but produce wines that we like, wines belonging to our culture. They are what they have to be and not what you want them to be. All of this because we are simply modest-sized wine artisans who make no more than 50,000 bottles, when nature smiles on us.”
