Sweet
Brigantino
By Giulio Accornero e Figli, Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
Brigantino is a Malvasia di Casorzo DOC, a low-alcohol, sweet aromatic red first produced in 1982.
Tasting notes
Serve chilled with fruit tarts, krumiri (traditional wheat-flour biscuits from the area) and dry biscuits; also excellent with fresh fruit and as a light, refreshing aperitif.
Pairs well with
Dessert, aperitif wine
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Malvasia di Casorzo DOC
- Grape
- Malvasia di Casorzo 100%
- Production area
- Municipality of Vignale Monferrato (AL)
- Exposure
- East
- Harvest
- Hand-picked in September and October
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot pruning in line with tradition, with bunches thinned in August
- Vinification
- Low-temperature vinification on the skins, no malolactic fermentation. Bottled in January after cold stabilization.
- Serving temperature
- 4°C
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