Product: Benvenuti Malvazija San Salvatori
Country: Croatia
Region: Kaldir
Producer: Benvenuti
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Alcohol: 11.50%

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Benvenuti Malvazija San Salvatori, this Malvasia vineyard is planted at our highest position, at an impressive 400 meters above sea level. In good and dry years, when the grapes can remain on the vine a bit longer, we use them to produce dessert wines through the so-called passito method. The late-harvest grapes are further air-dried for three months, during which the berries become wrinkled, concentrating sugars and acids, ultimately yielding a complex and irresistibly enticing sweet nectar. Malvasia San Salvatore is a type of dessert wine that can be aged for decades, during which its quality will only continue to develop. It is conceived as a wine for special moments or as a gift for significant life occasions.

Wine is thoroughly hard-wired in the genetic code of our family. The vineyards around our home in Kaldir have been here since time immemorial and we tend to them with as much passion as our ancestors. A wine jug dating to the Antiquity that was found in our vineyard and is kept in a museum in Trieste bears witness to this thousand-year continuity and serves as a daily reminder of our mission – to keep the viticulture and the winemaking tradition alive and prosperous. Albert and Nikola and their father Livio Benvenuti have the role of the protectors of our region and our family’s tradition.The winery is part of our family home in Kaldir. There we monitor and devotedly tend to all our wines. We are focused on the traditional ways of aging our wine in older and aromatically neutral oak barrels as well as on the vinification method which best preserves the authenticity and the characteristics of our terroir in our wines.