White
Langhe Rossese Bianco
By Abrigo Fratelli, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Abrigo Fratelli's first bottling of Rossese Bianco, a native variety grown in Monforte d'Alba, released from the 2024 vintage.
Tasting notes
Colour: limpid, pale straw yellow with golden reflections, tertiary aromas rising during ageing. Bouquet: intense, quite complex, fine, fruity, fragrant, slight hint of cut grass. Taste: warm and soft entry turning tropical, pineapple with pear and a bitterish grapefruit finish, good acidity and freshness, balanced and fine.
Pairs well with
Fish, including sauced fish, appetisers, white meats, pasta with fish or vegetables
Technical details
- Style
- White
- Denomination
- Langhe DOC Rossese Bianco
- Grape
- Rossese Bianco
- Production area
- Monforte d'Alba
- Soil
- Clayey-calcareous marl with a strong presence of silt and high fertility
- Exposure
- West
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2022, 4500 vines/ha, about 1 ha
- Vinification
- Grapes gently crushed and pressed, must fermented at low temperature, matured sur lie for two months, bottled in February following the harvest. First vintage of this native variety for the estate.
- Serving temperature
- 10-12°C
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