VINITALY 2025 Many faces, the uniqueness of the Wildbacher di Col Sandago

A precious jewel with a thousand faces, it reveals itself in the bottle and in the glass in the seductive and sweet notes of Dagoberthus Passito as well as in the elegant pure Rosso version, passing through the sparkling declination of a harmonious and floral Charmat Rosé up to a Metodo Classico of great persistence.

A true ode recited by many voices, a reverberation of a nobility whose roots sink deep into time and lead to Western Styria, in the Austrian countryside of Deutschlandberg. Within the epic of a proud and rather stubborn vine, about two centuries ago, the landing on the hills of Col Sandago, in the Marca Trevigiana, where a new era begins. A landing that is not easy, given that in the lands where it finds refuge it is overshadowed by other vines, much more well-known and widespread. Relegated to a corner, the Wildbacher almost disappears, only to be rediscovered, in our day, by those who know about sincere wines.

Martino Zanetti brings to light and falls in love with those abandoned rows inside his estate, entrusting expert agronomists with the study of these tenacious grapes. A small great masterpiece comes to life, born from the spark of an intuition, blossomed in the love for the most noble vines. Wildbacher is unique, which in the Treviso lands is enriched with perfumes and scents, but which requires meticulous, almost obsessive care. The planning of the rows is scrupulous, the harvest of the small bunches with compact and not very pulpy grapes is done strictly by hand.

And once it reaches the cellar, it must be treated like a prince: it sleeps long slumbers (from 24 to 30 months) in oak barrels, to then rest another 12 months in the bottle in its pure Rosso variant; it ennobles its grapes thanks to natural drying in the company's fruit cellar, before being subjected to a gentle pressing to give shape to the Dagoberthus Passito; it trembles in an autoclave for about 3 months before revealing its most exuberant soul with the Charmat Rosé; it is colored through a brief maceration on the skins before patiently refining in the bottle from 24 to 42 months to give life to a regal Classic Method.

Many faces, the uniqueness of the Wildbacher di Col Sandago. A treasure for connoisseurs that has found its new home in the lands of Col Sandago thanks to the intuition of Martino Zanetti.