{"product_id":"2025-chardonnay-educato-elio-grasso","title":"Chardonnay, Educato, Elio Grasso 2025","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFresh herbs and delicate white flowers over lemon tart, with peach, apple and pear filling the middle. The oak and sweet spice are woven in rather than laid on, and with no malolactic to soften it the finish stays crisp and mineral. Chardonnay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElio Grasso has been in family hands for generations, beginning as a grape-selling business before Elio himself left a banking career in the 1970s to make wine, took the estate to 100% bottling of its own fruit and in 1978 released three single-vineyard Crus: Gavarini Chiniera, Ginestra Casa Maté and Rüncot. Gianluca Grasso joined his father in 1995 and runs the estate today, modernising vineyard and cellar while upholding traditional practice; of its 45 hectares only 18 are under vine, the rest kept as forest and grassland rather than turned over to more planting. The Chardonnay flourishes on a southeast-facing slope at 380 to 400 metres, on a slightly sandy, limestone-based soil that drains well and lends a mineral edge, where the diurnal swing concentrates flavour while holding the freshness. The vines are around thirty years old, planted at 4,500 per hectare and trained on a Casarsa system — a tree-like structure with a permanent cordon at about 1.60 metres that leaves only a few small, well-exposed bunches — and farmed with cow and green manure and no chemical treatments. After full destemming, fermentation began four to five days later, a third in temperature-controlled stainless steel, a third in new French oak barriques and a third in one-year-old barriques; malolactic fermentation was avoided to preserve the wine's freshness and it matured for seven months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10–12°C. Good with roast chicken, sea bass, a creamy risotto or a young pecorino. Drink over the next five to ten years; no decanting needed. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elio Grasso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476407816575,"sku":"HNW-5306025A","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/5306025A.jpg?v=1789921799","url":"https:\/\/www.edkawines.com\/products\/2025-chardonnay-educato-elio-grasso","provider":"Edka Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}