Scarpetta Pinot Grigio DOC Friuli

The name points to Friuli in Italy, but the label's beginnings sit an ocean away: Scarpetta says it was created by the founders of a Boulder, Colorado restaurant, who built the wine around the food and wine culture of Italy's Friuli region. The grape is Pinot Grigio, and official guides say Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris are one white grape under two names, the wording usually signaling a style choice rather than a different fruit; the Grigio spelling leans lighter and crisper, Gris toward more weight. If you are weighing a bottle marked one way against one marked the other, that is what the words are telling you.

For what ends up in the glass, those guides describe pear and apple, citrus and stone fruit, with sweetness anywhere from dry to gently off-dry, and its price ranged from $15.99 to $20.99 in our September 2026 checks. We do not have a shopper rating for this wine. The store listing carries it as a Pinot Grigio from Friuli DOC.

Scarpetta's technical sheet for the current 2025 vintage gives real numbers: 12.5 percent alcohol, vines trained in the Guyot method, grapes destemmed and left on the skins for about 12 hours before a stainless-steel fermentation, then six months of time on the spent yeast, also in stainless steel. The producer sources the fruit from two Friuli sites: the light, gravelly soils of the Grave region, which the producer credits for the wine's crisp minerality, and, for 30 percent of the blend, steep hillside “Ponca” soil in the Colli Orientali. The sheet's own tasting language describes a light straw color with a hint of salmon, aromas of stone fruit and melon, and a palate the producer calls “light on its feet but complex”, with medium body.

Our call: a good pick if a documented tech sheet is enough to go on; Scarpetta states the alcohol, the vine training and a specific two-site fruit source down to the soil type. Pass if a shopper track record matters to you; no rating has reached our record yet, so the producer's own numbers are carrying the case.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.