Bardolino Goto by Vini Sassara

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Review of a Sunny Red

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This delightfully bright and juicy red from Vini Sassara ($21) was one of my favorite natural wines from recent memory. Their vineyard is located just outside Verona, in the Morainic Hills near Lake Garda, owned by longtime natural winemakers Alessia and Stefano Bertaiola. This wine is made by way of spontaneous fermentation with native yeast, a 6-day maceration on the skins, then bottled unfined and unfiltered with no added sulfites.

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With a background in agricultural research and development, Alessia joined forces with third-generation winemaker Stefano more than a decade ago and together they farm a 10-hectare site that has been in Stefano’s family for 50 years.

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