I was so pleasantly surprised to find a killer value Vermentino from Giovanni Cherchi this last weekend. I was traveling through San Francisco and was deciding on a place where my wife and I might find dinner and we happened across a new restaurant named Anchor and Hope. This is the third restaurant from the Town Hall and Salt House group and it was excellent. We ordered seafood and I could think of nothing better than to go to the Italian islands and find an excellent bottle of white wine to go with our dinner. Giovanni Cherchi is a cherished young winemaker from Sardegna, Italy. He has about 20+ hectares of land with about 60% of it planted to the delicious Vermentino variety. Almost all the vineyards in Sardegna are located close to the water and this is no exception. About 200 meter elevation and close to the cliffs of the coast Cherchi’s Vermention is the classique full bodied wine that you would expect with the coastal ocean terroir heavily influencing the nuances of the wine. Pale straw in color and delightful pear, honey and citrus fruit tones balance with the saline terroir to give an excellent finish and fine pairing to fresh seafood.
Explore a Vermentino if you haven’t already, they are worth the effort to seek out.
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