ANSELMI

Roberto Anselmi, a former racing driver, is widely regarded as one of Italy’s leading white wine producers. He has been at the forefront in recent years of quality Soave production, making three dry cuvees and one award winning dessert wine, I Capitelli, with the Recioto di Soave technique. Frustrated by the low quality and general lack of ambition in the Soave region, in 2000 he chose to declassify all of his wines and leave the Soave DOC, his wines are now labelled as IGT Veneto Bianco. He takes a quality minded approach, starting in the vineyard with densely planted Guyot-trained vines and corresponding low yields.

Anselmi took over running his family property in the 1980s, and his wines are very impressive in quite a modern, approachable style. He also produces the elegant, well-structured Realda Cabernet Sauvignon from this cool climate region which will come as a surprise to the uninitiated.

Roberto's motto says it all:

The quality in the production of wine is not the fruit of dogmatism but the productive results of scientific projects, of sacrifice and the wishes of man.

www.robertoanselmi.com