Sparkling
Brachetto d'Acqui
By Marco Bonfante, Nizza, Piemonte, Italy
Sweet sparkling Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG at 6.5% alcohol.
Tasting notes
Intense ruby red with fine, elegant perlage. Fruity, musky and very delicate, with rose and strawberry. Sweet and aromatic, with low alcohol balanced by acidity.
Pairs well with
Aperitif and dessert wine; baked desserts, fresh pastries, cakes, pies, fruit tarts; fresh fruit (strawberry, peach) and dried fruit (hazelnuts, nuts, figs).
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Denomination
- Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG Spumante
- Grape
- Brachetto 100%
- Soil
- Calcareous clay marl, with sand and loam
- Harvest
- Second half of September
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 5,500 plants per hectare, 65 hl/ha
- Vinification
- Soft-pressed must rests in the tank for some hours, is racked and chilled to 2-3 C. It then ferments at a controlled 16-18 C until it reaches 6.5% alcohol; pressure from natural fermentation CO2 creates the perlage. As a sparkling wine the foam takes longer to develop.
- Serving temperature
- 6-8 C
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