2022 Cantine di Ora Il Casato Pinot Grigio Rose delle Venezie Italy 750 ml

We’ve tasted and offered our share of under-$15 wines that pack a seemingly impossible amount of vibrancy and complexity for the price. Yet there’s one that consistently knocks it out of the park, every single year.

That wine is the Cantine di Ora Il Casato Pinot Grigio Rosé.

Past vintages have won raves from Wine Access members, who’ve called it “One of the best rosés I have ever tasted.” We’re thrilled to say that the 2022 doesn’t just live up to the hype—it eclipses it. 

“This is one of the cleanest and lightest renditions I have found for $15,” said our Master Sommelier Sur Lucero about this bottle, which earned an impressive 97-point score. That puts this seamless refresher in the company of some of the best bottlings from the Veneto and Friuli, and we have some of the only cases in the US.

It’s rare to find rosés crafted from Pinot Grigio—most of it goes into white wines—but they’re some of the most refreshing, satisfying ones out there. As Pinot Grigio ripens, its skin darkens, and brief skin contact before pressing gives the wine a vibrant pink hue.

Cantine di Ora culled this wine from the verdant hills and valleys of the Veneto and Trentino, the latter of which was Wine Enthusiast’s 2020 Wine Region of the Year, producing white wines that the publication says “boast freshness and finesse.” Here, the soaring peaks of the Dolomites shelter the vines while warm currents run through the valleys, creating diurnal temperature swings that produce this wine’s excellent balance of ripeness and acidity.