Sparkling

Brachetto

By Fabio Perrone, Asti, Piemonte, Italy

Fabio Perrone Brachetto

A lightly sparkling, delicately sweet Brachetto in an intense rosé colour, with red-berry aromas.

Tasting notes

Colour: intense rosé. Bouquet: fragrant and aromatic, with sharp hints of raspberries, cherries and strawberries. Taste: delicately sweet, fruity but not cloying thanks to a well-balanced acidity against the residual sugar.

Pairs well with

Goes well with dry pastries and desserts based on fruit, cream and chocolate. Also pleasant as an aperitif and as a refreshing drink at any time of the day.

Technical details

Style
Sparkling
Denomination
Piemonte DOC Brachetto
Grape
Brachetto
Production area
Santo Stefano Belbo
Exposure
South. 350 metres above sea level
Harvest
Second week of September, with accurate manual selection of the grapes
Vineyard planting
Annual pruning and training using the traditional Piedmontese Guyot method.
Vinification
After destemming and crushing, the must macerates on the skins at controlled temperature for 1-2 days to extract colour. It is then drawn off and fermentation continues in autoclave, which retains part of the gas for the characteristic perlage. Fermentation with selected yeasts at controlled temperature lasts about two weeks. A short period in the bottle.

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