Sweet
Passito Fantasia
By Cantina Riboli, Asti, Piemonte, Italy
A late-harvest Moscato dried on racks for about 60 days and aged 18 months in used barriques. About 200 numbered half-bottles a year.
Tasting notes
Amber yellow. Complex, intense nose of raisins, orange and candied peach, with tertiary notes from the long ageing in wood. Consistent and sweet, yet fresh on nose and palate.
Pairs well with
Aged cheeses with jams, or a hazelnut cake.
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Piemonte Moscato Vendemmia Tardiva DOCG
- Grape
- Moscato
- Production area
- Sessame
- Soil
- Clayey
- Harvest
- Beginning of September
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training; vines 38 years old on average
- Vinification
- Grapes are harvested in crates and dried on racks for about 60 days, then destemmed by hand bunch by bunch and fermented in steel with indigenous yeasts and no added sulphites. The wine is filtered through Irish bags and aged 18 months in used barriques. About 200 bottles a year, numbered by hand. Alcohol 15%, bottle 375 ml.
- Serving temperature
- 18-20°C
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