Sacchetto Fili Pinot Grigio Rosato Spumante
£11.25
The wine
Pale pink with copper reflections. A strong fruity scent with nuances of white flowers such as acacia and wisteria. Full bodied, smooth and balanced on the palate, dry and velvety through the finish.
Pinot Grigio is a pink-skinned grape, mutated from Pinot Noir, and left on its skins even briefly it gives real colour, which is what happens here. The result is a rosato spumante rather than a Prosecco, since Glera is not involved at all. Fili is Sacchetto's more contemporary range.
The producer
Sacchetto
View all Sacchetto winesFounded in 1920 and still in family hands, Cantina Sacchetto sits in the heart of the Veneto. Filiberto Sacchetto runs it today alongside his son Paolo and daughter Beatrice, overseeing every stage themselves with a mix of tradition and a willingness to try things.
The Veneto is Prosecco country, and Sacchetto work across the appellation's tiers: the broad Prosecco DOC that covers most of the region, and the smaller Asolo Prosecco Superiore DOCG in the hills north of Treviso, where the vineyards are steeper and hand-worked. Almost all of it is made by the Charmat method, the second fermentation taking place in pressurised tank rather than in bottle, which is what keeps Glera's delicate pear and white-flower aromatics intact.
In 2022 the estate earned Equalitas certification, the Italian standard that audits the social, environmental and economic sides of sustainability through biodiversity, carbon and water footprint and growing practice. Investment in modern vinification has given them a range of still and sparkling wines that shows what the Veneto does best at a price that rarely disappoints.
