Novità Pinot Grigio 2025
£8.25
The wine
A vibrant, tangy freshness with aromas of pear, grapefruit zest and a hint of spice. Those are the hallmarks of good Pinot Grigio, and this one has all of them at a price that makes it an easy everyday choice.
Pinot Grigio is a pink-skinned mutation of Pinot Noir, and in northern Italy it is picked early and pressed off its skins immediately to keep the wine pale and crisp. The alluvial soils of the Po valley give reliable ripeness and volume, which is why so much of the world's Pinot Grigio comes from here.
The producer
Novità
View all Novità winesNovita is a range of everyday Italian varietals drawn from the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna, the two regions that between them supply a great deal of what the world drinks as Italian wine.
That is not a criticism. The Po valley and the Veneto plain have deep alluvial soils, reliable sunshine and a long growing season, and they produce enormous quantities of clean, well-made wine at prices no hillside vineyard could match. Pinot Grigio, Trebbiano and Sangiovese are the staples, made in stainless steel, bottled young and intended to be opened without ceremony.
Italy has more registered grape varieties than any country on earth, somewhere above five hundred, and more land under vine than all but a couple. Wines like these are the base of that pyramid, and there is no shame in it. The name means novelty or something new, and these are wines for a Tuesday rather than an occasion.
