Most of the winery's solely Texas-sourced grapes are turned into Italian-style wines like Dolcetto and Vermentino.
The Marchese Antinori began making Vermentino at his Maremma estate, Tenuta Guada al Tasso, in 1996.
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Some Vermentino vineyards, like those of Abbatucci in Corsica, even have great ocean views.
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Maybe his Vermentino would be more popular if it were cheaper, I ventured.
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Vermentino is one of the most important grapes in Corsica, especially in the coastal Patrimonia region, where it's also known as Malvoisie.
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More recently, in 2009, the top Piedmontese producer La Spinetta began making Vermentino in Tuscany, too, under the name Casanova della Spinetta.
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Marchese Piero Antinori is one of several high-profile producers who have long produced other more famous wines (Tignanello, Solaia) but now make Vermentino as well.
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According to Jordan Ogron, assistant general manager and wine director of the Los Angeles restaurant Fig and Olive, not many of his customers drink Vermentino.
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Thought to have originated in Spain, Vermentino has been grown in a number of Mediterranean locations for hundreds of years, including Provence and Liguria, Corsica and Sardinia.
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Actually, Vermentino has even more aliases than it does addresses.
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Less than 10 miles south of Corsica on the island of Sardinia, Vermentino is produced in a lighter, higher-acid, more citrusy style much like the Vermentinos (aka Rolles) of Provence.
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One wine was particularly conspicuous by its absence: Vermentino.
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In fact, affordability is one of Vermentino's great charms.
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Vermentino is also produced on Italy's mainland, in the coastal region of Maremma in Tuscany and further north in the Liguria region, where Vermentino takes on a decidedly minerally, sometimes almost stony, edge.
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But Guernio Melis, a native Sardinian based in New York who is a wine buyer at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and a sommelier at Orso, told me he didn't feature Vermentino because it was cheap.
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Though it's recently been named a clonal cousin of Vermentino a far more famous grape a good Pigato from a top producer like Bruna or Terre Bianche can be even more nuanced, with aromas of almonds and citrus.
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