Fileno Grillo DOC Sicilia 2021 - CVA Canicattì

Elegant Sicilian white wine with a new identity and a strong personality. Produced with Grillo grapes in western Sicily, Fileno is an excellent interpreter of the autochthonous vine from which it comes and has a strong organoleptic depth, good flavor and good longevity potential. A soft and fresh wine, perfect for fish menus.

The highest score ever, among the Italian white wines offered for tasting at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2022: Fileno, harvest 2021, Grillo in purity, is the best white wine in Italy. An extraordinary result for CVA, a small but prestigious wine cooperative in the Agrigento area.

Emotion, pride and a lot of happiness. These are the warm feelings expressed in the company which, they immediately wanted to emphasize, belongs to CVA but also to the whole Sicily of quality wine which, on the potential of the Grillo grape, has invested and bet so much.

This edition of Concours - the most important international wine competition dedicated to quality wine - saw the participation of over 7,000 wines from 40 different wine-growing countries and territories of the old and new world. The international tasting panel of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, made up of industry experts representing 45 nationalities, elected Fileno, the Sicilian company's flagship Grillo, the best white wine in Italy, thanks to the high score obtained in seat of evaluation of the jury which - let us always remember - carries out all the operations blindly, without knowing any data attributable to the producer or to a specific territory.

The Grillo Fileno of CVA compared itself with the best Italian productions - native and international - and prevailed, it would seem also in a clear way, obtaining, in fact, from the five juror examiners, a more than unanimous response, so far ahead in the score, to be conquered the Grand Gold Medal and the highest score ever in the type of white wines, obviously Italian.

"We are really happy. The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles is a rigorous, impartial and internationally renowned examiner - underlines Giovanni Greco, President of the associated winemakers -. The reputation is very high, so much so that it is considered the world championship of quality wine. in short, as a major international football event with designated competitors from all continents. It is the Grillo that won - a variety that was born in our territories and determined its history -. Our Fileno is a Grillo with an identity, elegant, authentically linked to the lands where it is grown ".