Sabbia Vino Bianco
Curiosities
Sabbia is obtained using white grapes of the area of production, vinified as a red wine, with skins contact during fermentation, and aging in barrique.
Oxidized wines have no additives and are very natural with complex aromas and flavours.
Sabbia is no exception; expect chamomile and green tea, ripe peaches and toasty character with nutty notes. Rich and full-bodied.
This highly unique wine ferments in steel tanks, without controlled temperature, and slow maceration with skins and seeds.
Long aging occur in old French barriques, typical to this process.
The wine’s sand colour mirrors the vineyard’s orange colour and is the inspiration for its name – Sabbia – Italian word for “sand”.
Tasting Notes
Variety: white grapes of the area of production
Colour: gold yellow with orange reflections
Scent in perfume: intense, with note of ripe peaches and apricots. Light spices, green tea and chamomile
Flavour: full-bodied, pleasant note of ripe yellow fruits and nuts. Mineral and saline sensations with light oak nuances.
Best served at: 8-10 °C – 47-50 °F
Food matches: fish soup, foie-gras, spicy ethnic foods
Vinification: fermentation in steel tanks, without controlled temperature, and slow maceration with skins and seeds.
Fining: long aging occur in old French barriques, typical to this process
Available sizes: 0,75 l
Ageing potential: 5-7 years from the harvest
Jancis Robinson 2020 — 16.5/20
Guide Jancis Robinson
Score 16.5/20
Publish Year 2020
Rating: 16.5/20
An orange wine made from Arneis in Piemonte. No vintage on the label, but I think this is a single-vintage wine. Slow fermentation on skins and pips without temperature control.
Long maceration. Aged in French barriques. Sabbia means sand – the colour of the wine and the vineyard soil.
Incredible glowing amber gold and smelling of ginger biscuits and dried peaches and marigold petals. Very, very, very spicy!
I make this absolutely gorgeous Yemeni spice blend called Hawaij and it tastes just like it. Bone dry, with the only fruit being shavings of dried Seville orange peel and a stencil of apricots.
Crisp-fried sage. Dusty. It smells and tastes like the dust of a tobacco auction floot. Tannins, subtle, supple, fine, as if a nanometre thickness of molten rubber had been painted on and peeled off.
Long, intruiging, challenging wine.
James Suckling 2020 — 92/100
Guide James Suckling
Score 92/100
Publish Year 2020
James Suckling, considered one of the major international wine critics, rated our Sabbia Vino Bianco with a score of 92/100.
Annuario dei migliori vini italiani 2020 — 88/100
Guide Annuario dei migliori vini italiani
Score 88/100
Publish Year 2020
Sabbia Vino Bianco
Di gran morbidezza balsamica l’aroma, di gran fittezza la trama compositiva estrattiva dei vini di Demarie.
Features
Sabbia Vino Bianco
Vineyard
Production area: Municipalities of Roero
Farming: tradizional – guyot
Kg of grapes per hectare: no more than 100 quintals/hectar
Max wine liters per hectare: around 7.000 litres
Chemical Analysis
Alcohol vol. (%): 13,5%
Sugar rate: < 4 g/l
Total Acidity: 5,3 g/l
Total SO2: < 100 mg/l
