Published by Jeremy.
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One of our favorite things about Italy is that there is no shortage of wine grapes to try.
In the Lazio region, Casale del Giglio produces wine from the Bellone grape, Anthium, and they believe this one may have Uva Pantastica as its ancestor grape- a varietal that was seemingly praised by Pliny the Elder in the first century.
Grapes with ancient origins, and a new one for our quest to try them all? We're in!
A Fruit Forward Grape with Minerality
This Bellone was medium lemon in color with medium aromas of peach, pear, wet stone, toast, honey, grapefruit, smoke, and yellow apple.
On the palate, it was dry with high acidity, medium alcohol, and medium(+) body, flavor intensity, and finish. We had flavors of lemon, yellow apple, pear, peach, pineapple, papaya, beeswax, wet stone, grapefruit, and toast.
Although this one was predominantly fruit-forward, we did enjoy the minerality and slight waxy notes in the bottle all the same, which played nicely with the high acidity.
Bellone Food Pairing – Pasta with Dried Tomato
We paired this Bellone with a ricotta-filled agnolotti topped with an oven-dried tomato and saffron sauce. We picked this wine because we wanted an acidic white wine that wouldn't overpower the more delicate sauce and filling on the agnolotti.
This one ended up being a fairly pleasing pairing with more intense notes of grapefruit and peach skin (with a slight textural element to it) that we enjoyed. Not a bad pairing at all!
Score: 3 / 5
We'd buy a glass of this one.
This Bellone has quite the interesting backstory and is a pretty delicious bottle all at the same time. We always love more minerality and texture in our white wines, and this one is moving towards our sweet spot. Try it if you can find it, and we'd always be up for a glass!
Casale del Giglio is located at Strada Cisterna – Nettuno, Km 13, Le Ferriere, IT 04100. We purchased this bottle on Wine.com and enjoyed it in 2025.
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