Sparkling
Cascina Bonfante
By Marco Bonfante, Nizza, Piemonte, Italy
Sweet, lightly sparkling Brachetto in a 500 ml bottle at 5.5% alcohol.
Tasting notes
Clear ruby red with fine, elegant perlage. Fruity, intense and very delicate, with rose and wild strawberry. Sweet and aromatic, with low alcohol balanced by acidity.
Pairs well with
Aperitif and dessert wine; fresh pastries, filled cakes, fruit tarts and soft spoon desserts; ideal with chocolate desserts, especially strawberries dipped in dark chocolate or zabaglione.
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Denomination
- MPF da uve Brachetto
- Grape
- Brachetto 100%
- Soil
- Whitish marl made of clay, sand and silt
- Harvest
- First week of September
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 5,500 plants per hectare, 50 hl/ha
- Vinification
- Soft-pressed must rests in the tank for some hours, is racked and chilled to 2-3 C. It then ferments in autoclave at a controlled 16-18 C until it reaches the required 5.5% alcohol; pressure from natural fermentation CO2 creates the perlage.
- Serving temperature
- 6-8 C
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