Thursday 25 June 2026 (Day 5)
The morning excursions were by
bicycle through Chioggia or Chioggia Market Visit.
Mrs P doesn’t cycle, and she
loathes shopping and as we'd read a report that said “supposedly where the locals shop. Just a lot of Tat really. Didn’t
particularly enjoyed the fish market either. I felt we were in the way of the
locals doing their shopping.” We have enough tat already so chose to stay on
the sundeck watching passing boats and reading our Kindles.
After lunch were three excursions,
and the one I wanted to go on was titled ‘A Noble County Villa and its Wine’.
Before the cruise I visited the website of Domino di Bagnioli (https://www.ildominiodibagnoli.it) and I wanted to taste its wines made from the rare clone Friularo
di Bagnoli.
Domino di Bagnioli is about an hour’s coach ride from the boat and its large grey buildings dominate the small town of Bagnioli.
Our guide was Tamara Andruszkiewicz, but first we had a walk in the grounds led by the tasting cellar manager where we admired the garden, historic statues and vineyard, then to the cellar for the real work of wine tasting.
A long table had been set between large barrels equipped
with bottle water, plates and cutlery. There were baskets of bite sided
breadsticks and generous platters of cheeses and cold meats were passed along.
The first wine was a sparkling
white from the red Friularo, poured from a magnum and emptied glasses were
refilled. It was Dominio Bagnioli Spumante 2015 made by the traditional method
and lees aged for over nine years before disgorgement in January 2025.
Then we tasted red Dominio Bagnioli Friularo di Bagnoli
DOCG 2022. This had been fermented in stainless steel and aged 9-12 months in a mix of new and old 500 litre French oak barrels.
The third wine was red Dominio
Bagnioli Friularo di Bagnoli DOCG “Classico Vendemmia Tardive” 2019
The grapes had been left to raison
on the vines, then harvested in mid-November. They took 40-50 days to ferment
and spent two years in barrel before bottling.
I enjoyed this the most and bought
two bottles (€19.90 each) to bring home in my case.
Overnight mooring – Chiogga port https://what3words.com/sums.proposes.graver
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