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Santa Margherita, founded in 1935 by Count Gaetano Marzotto in Veneto, Italy, is renowned for its innovative winemaking and commitment to quality. The winery is famous for pioneering the modern production of Pinot Grigio, setting a benchmark for the varietal. Their portfolio includes Pinot Grigio, Chianti Classico Riserva, Prosecco Superiore, and Sparkling Rosé, each reflecting the unique characteristics of its region.

Santa Margherita's wines are known for their balance, elegance, and food-friendly nature, making them a popular choice for various occasions. Sustainability is a core value, with eco-friendly practices like renewable energy and carbon neutrality initiatives. This commitment ensures high-quality wines produced with respect for the environment.

The winery's dedication to innovation, quality, and sustainability has solidified its reputation as a leader in the global wine industry, offering extraordinary wines for everyday experiences. Santa Margherita continues to be a favorite among wine enthusiasts worldwide.

Rosé

Santa Margherita Rosé is a balanced union and synergy of white and red grape varieties Chardonnay is the principal white variety used, along with Sauvignon Blanc and other native, locally grown white varieties The wine takes its delicate pink hue from red Pinot Nero grapes. The different varieties are all vinified separately before assemblage as a rosé.

After pressing, and before fermentation, the white grape varieties are cold macerated with their dregs and agitated for around one week to obtain the wine’s distinctive aromatic richness and overall complexity. Once fermentation has been completed, the wines are racked and cleared but left cloudy with lees in suspension.

The Pinot Nero grapes are vinified as a red wine for around 5 days and spend the first 24 hours cold soaking with their skins. The wine is then racked and filtered before being blended with the two whites. To ensure the wine retains its colour freshness and acidity, no malolactic fermentation takes place

Prosecco

In 1952, Santa Margherita made its first foray into the world of Prosecco, helping transform a local sparkling wine into a global phenomenon in just a few decades. 1961 was the year that Pinot Grigio (as the world knows it today) was born: a pure, single-variety white wine that brings out the freshness of the fruit, revealing its true potential and flexibility to a wine that rewrote the rulebook and travelled far and wide, conquering North America. The 1980s saw new interpretations of Chardonnay, featuring a youthful, fresh, and fruity style very spontaneous and very drinkable. While at the same time, Müller Thurgau, a sparkling variety, combined fragrant grapes with the carefree intrigue of bubbles. The founder’s dream also led to Santa Margherita’s illustrious classic reds

Pinot Grigio

Santa Margherita was the first producer to turn the pink Pinot Grigio grapes into a white wine. This method means that the must does not remain in contact with the skins so as not to take on their rust coloured pigment. After soft-pressing, the must ferments at 18 °C for 10-15 days. Once fermentation is complete, the wine is stored in stainless steel vats at a controlled temperature of 15°-16 °C until bottling.

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The market leader in volume and value for Pinot Grigio in Italy

Still owned and run by the founding Marzotto family

The first to produce Pinot Grigio as a white wine

Rosé

Pinot Grigio

Prosecco

Carbon Neutrality: all of the Pinot Grigio bottles we export to Canada (over 1,8 million bottles – almost 10% of our total wine production) are certified “Carbon Zero”: every gram of CO2 generated for the production of each bottle is fully compensated by targeted interventions, reducing or nullifying our emissions.

Zero Kilometre: most of the bottles for our wines are made in a plant just a few steps from the heart of our wine production.

Energy self-sufficiency of our winery through the use of renewable sources: 2000 m2 of solar panels on the roof of our winery and a biomass plant close by, means a reduction in our CO2 emissions of 190 million tonnes

For Santa Margherita ”good wine” can only come from a pristine environment, where nature is free to follow its own rules and not be forced

Adoption of very strict protocols in our vineyards by using only natural products, with the aim to safeguard biodiversity and protect the woodlands around our vineyards

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