Sweet

Regina di Felicità

By Cascina Baricchi, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy

Cascina Baricchi Regina di Felicità

A sweet sparkling Moscato built on ice wine from grapes picked frozen on winter nights, refermented with fresh Moscato must.

Tasting notes

The estate describes a straw yellow with golden glints, bright from its good acidity, rich in tropical fruit: passion fruit, mango and papaya, with the intense scent of Moscato and overripe grapes. On the palate a pleasant Moscato foam; great freshness and a fine, long-charmat perlage give this sweet wine real balance.

Pairs well with

Created to go with terrine of foie gras; also very good with all desserts and, at Christmas, with an artisan panettone.

Technical details

Style
Sweet
Denomination
Vino Spumante Dolce
Grape
Moscato Bianco
Production area
Neviglie
Harvest
A winter harvest in December or January, picked at night between 4:30 and 8:00 when the temperature falls below -5°C and the grapes are fully frozen.
Vineyard planting
Planted in the late 1980s and early 1990s from the estate's own vines, about 4,500 vines per hectare.
Vinification
The frozen grapes are pressed in a small vertical hydraulic press, yielding only 3 to 5 percent juice, which ferments in new Allier barriques and stabilises naturally in the cold. Ice wines from several vintages are then blended with fresh Moscato must and refermented in pressurised tank (charmat method), with about nine months on the lees.

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