Red
Freisa
By Antica Casa Vinicola Scarpa, Nizza, Piemonte, Italy
Freisa from the Bricchi estate, aged 24 months in steel before bottling.
Tasting notes
Wonderfully deep ruby red. Small berries with raspberry standing out, fine spiciness and excellent intensity. Full mouthfeel, enveloping body, pronounced tannin with pleasant freshness and a lingering aftertaste. Longevity: over 15 years.
Pairs well with
Meat ravioli; risotto with castelmagno cheese, grilled meat, bagna caoda, matured cheese, goat cheese, lamb chops
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Monferrato DOC Freisa
- Grape
- Freisa
- Production area
- I Bricchi estate, Acqui Terme; 0.9 hectares; 400 m above sea level
- Soil
- Red soils with a good percentage of clay
- Exposure
- East
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2005
- Vinification
- Maceration on the skins for 12 days in steel tanks with 2 manual pump-overs a day. After alcoholic fermentation the wine is racked to steel until malolactic fermentation is complete, then aged 24 months in steel before bottling.
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