We decided to add another day to our Summer Spirits Week. David learned how a local family is pouring out their passion for wines at La Vigneta Winery in Sarver.
[Music] we loved our summer Spirits week so much that we decided to extend it for one day we heard about a little Hidden Gem a family-owned Winery in Butler County David caught up with the owner Franchesca last week we’re going to do a little taste testing here right all right yes absolutely so talk to us about the first wine okay so today we have um our vermentino it’s a dry white Italian wine and the grapes are actually grown on the coast of Italy okay so it’s going to start start off just slightly dry and it’ll you’ll have flavors of grapefruit Citrus and it’ll actually end with a sea spray finish a se- spray finish okay now I’m very intrigued I want to see what this tastes like and how popular is this this is actually exclusive to our tasting room but everybody that tries it buys it so it’s a very tasty wine great for summertime I would buy this too yeah it’s delicious right no it’s sweet and yet it’s got a little Zing it’s really and it’s it’s summer time it’s TR Su exactly one of our favorites all right so what do we have next next we have our lemonata this is inspired by my father and his home in Sicily okay so as you know um lemons are native to Sicily and my dad actually Peels and squeezes each lemon and then we soak the lemon rinds in the Moscato wine that’s much like how they would make a lemon cello right I was going to ask whether this is going to be similar to a lemon cello now while I try this talk a little bit more more about your family and your dad because that’s really what launched this whole thing for you like you grew up in an environment of making wine right exactly yeah that’s true so as a child my dad was always making wine one day we were at a family wedding and they had his wine on the table and I was just sampling and his were the best on the table and I said Dad when did you get so good at this let’s do something let’s do let’s make this a business and that’s how you started this and I have to tell you this is wonderful it’s not it’s lemon cello sometimes can be too strong for me and this is is light and the lemony taste at the same time it’s a nice combo thank you I’m glad you like it all right what do we have next we have a blueberry Cabernet so this is sort of The Best of Both Worlds when somebody comes in and they want something dry but their partner wants something sweet a lot of times they’ll agree to the blueberry Cabernet I see it starts off dry and it finishes with a pop of blueberry I always like to take a sniff of it first and I can get the blueberry right away yes 7 years ago we moved to Sarver we bought 17 acres and that’s where we plan to expand next year with our um 6,000 ft production Tasting Room event facility but you do have a tasting room now we do have a tasting room now and that is actually in Sarver um right on the main road and we offer entertainment there as well karaoke um DJ bands that sort of you make fun with it we have a lot of fun that’s what it’s all about great wine so that’s super all right you have one more that we get to try and I have the best job in the world I think cuz I get to keep trying these tell us what this one is so this is our um sangria delmare Kato and this was really inspired by all of the farmers markets that we do okay so you know paying tribute to them that’s how we got started and it’s got a lot of fresh fruit notes in it um it’s actually made with Pennsylvania grapes so you’ll taste the Concord the Niagara and then lots of notes of like pineapple Berry cranberry so you get a little bit of everything it’s nice too and I even got the little bit of like the tart cranberry in there too and it it Blends it very well with the sweetness thank you really nice I glad you like thank you so much for coming bringing us some wine to taste and also sharing your story thank you for having us we’re so happy to have been here we love all of it well you can sample all of those wines at love V vignetta tasting room they will also be on site next weekend July 27th and 28th at westfest in Sarver we’ll have a link to that event on our website Pittsburgh tood live.com