Pigato Riviera Ligure di Ponente DOC 0,75L

Pigato is a wine from the western Ligurian Riviera, a white wine produced in the provinces of Savona and Imperia. Pigato is a wine characterised by its straw-yellow colour with greenish reflections. The bouquet is delicate, subtle and pleasant, with fruity overtones and hints of almonds. It is a dry, full-bodied and tasty white wine. 

It is an excellent wine to serve as an aperitif and to accompany seafood appetisers, sushi and fried seafood. Also with fish, it is suitable for serving with soups and baked and baked fish dishes. Being a typical Ligurian wine, Pigato is perfect to be served with typical local foods, from pasta with pesto (and other traditional sauces) to vegetable pies: the 13% vol. alcohol content allows this pairing, so this is an ideal white wine to be drunk with trofie with pesto sauce and green beans and potatoes, but also with pansoti with walnut sauce, to chard pie and rice cake. It is certainly not to be missed among the wines kept chilled for when you want to treat yourself to a nice strip of crispy focaccia as an aperitif appetiser.

The serving temperature for Pigato is 10°C as a table wine and 8°C when served with fish.

It is a white wine that is usually consumed in the vintage but can also be aged with excellent results. It is a wine that is still little known outside its Ligurian area of origin and has therefore fortunately maintained a limited production that allows a certain craftsmanship to be preserved.

The Pigato vine has always linked its history with the other typical white wine of the Riviera di Ponente, Vermentino, so much so that in the 19th century there was confusion between the two because they were very similar and produced in the same lands. The name Pigato has an uncertain history, although the most credited one is that it derives from "piga/"pigau", which in dialect are those speckles that appear on the fruit berries of this vine, making them all look dotted. Another hypothesis, on the other hand, would trace the name back to the Latin term 'picatum' which was the Roman aromatised wine.