Villa Picta

Brand new to Ontario, meet the lively Villa Picta! Young, passionate winegrower and maker Paolo Pasini, and author/NYC *star* sommelier Amanda Smeltz have teamed up and are representing lambrusco in new, sincere and groundbreaking ways. Paolo’s three hectares of familial river valley vineyards sit in Mantova, southern Lombardy, at the intersection of Veneto and Emilia-Romagna (FUN FACT! This is where Romeo Montague was exiled to after killing Tybalt!). Here he has spent years focusing on the regional varieties in the Lambrusco family that deserve their low-intervention moments in the sun, while also finding inspiration in seemingly unlikely places, and calculating the introduction of non-regional vines that show an aptitude for the area. Amanda was more recently welcomed aboard, with 2024 being their first vintage fully completed together. Her eagerness to work and learn from one of the most masterful pruners around is contagious, and she says her role right now is to offer up her well-travelled, discerning taste buds, passion and wine-mind wherever she can, but we see the title of master vine raiser in her future. Their lineup is filled with experimentation, delectable honesty & represents some of the most delicious expressions we have tasted. Welcome to the famiglia you darling love birds!
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