Tasting Notes: The Venissa Bianco is golden in color and instantly spicy on the nose with salty notes and nuances of fleshy yellow fruit. On the palate it is well-structure, full and velvety with quince notes and traces of licorice and honey. The finish is dry, savory, fully and persistent. Venissa is a great collector’s white wine with a long life expectancy.
The bottle honors Venice’s past and pays homage to three local traditions: wine, gold and glass. The inspiration was an immediate association of ideas, starting with the name of the variety: Dorona, the golden grape. One of the greatest traditions of Venice’s artisanal past is, in fact, that of the families of gold hammerers, the “Battiloro” in Italian. They hammer gold by hand, ultimately obtaining an impalably find gold leaf. It is a tradition that, like winemaking, had almost completely disappeard from Venice. Traditional Venetian gold leaf is applied by hand to each bottle of Venissa and baked onto the glass in one of the glassmaking ovens on the famous island of Murano.
