The ideal replacement for long-defunct Kina Lillet. Not only is this an exceptional apéritif (rocks, orange slice, perhaps a splash of soda), it's just the thing for a Vesper or the brilliant Corpse Reviver #2. But beware: in the words of cocktail legend Harry Craddock of the London Savoy, "Four of these taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again."
Red Vermouth using Daniele Piccinin's organic Valpolicella as a base wine with infusions of thyme, rhubarb, and helichyrsum for a bitter-forward Red Vermouth.
White Vermouth using Daniele Piccinin's organic Chardonnay and Durella grapes as a base wine with infusions of wormwood, lemon balm, chamomile, and mandarin.
From a vineyard planted in the 1950s, north of Venice, the Glera grapes macerate on the skins for ten days in steel, and the wine is bottled with the addition of fresh must from dried grapes, to prompt a secondary fermentation in the bottle. Unfiltered. Frizzante bubbles with powerful aromas of wildflowers, herbs and ginger.
Costadila is a closed ecosystem farm in the hills north of Venice. Each cuvee is bottled by its vineyard elevation and the wine is fermented in bottle and presented with the lees in the bottom of the bottle.
