Sparkling
San Martino
By Fabio Perrone, Asti, Piemonte, Italy
A partially fermented white Moscato must named after the bunches once picked in a second harvest around the feast of San Martino.
Tasting notes
Colour: golden yellow. Bouquet: broad and intriguing, recalling fresh fruit. Taste: persistent, with decent acidity very balanced against the residual sugar.
Pairs well with
Excellent as an aperitif; accompanies every dessert, particularly dry pastries.
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Denomination
- Mosto parzialmente fermentato bianco
- Grape
- Moscato Bianco Canelli
- Production area
- Own vineyards in Santo Stefano Belbo and Castiglione Tinella
- Exposure
- South, South-East. 400 metres above sea level
- Harvest
- End of August and first week of September, with manual selection of the grapes
- Vineyard planting
- Annual pruning and training using the traditional Piedmontese Guyot method.
- Vinification
- After crushing, the grapes are pressed. The must is decanted and stored in refrigerated autoclaves at controlled temperature, retaining the gas produced during fermentation for the characteristic perlage. Fermentation uses selected yeasts. A short period in the bottle.
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