Sweet
Sus Bel
By Ivaldi Dario, Nizza, Piemonte, Italy
A low-alcohol sweet red sparkling Brachetto d'Acqui from a short skin maceration.
Tasting notes
Fragrant and aromatic, with colours and scents recalling red rose petals; sweet, fresh, delicate and slightly tannic.
Pairs well with
Strawberries, dry pastries and desserts.
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG
- Grape
- Brachetto
- Production area
- Nizza Monferrato, Piemonte
- Soil
- Clay
- Exposure
- South-east
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 1998, Guyot-trained (estate-wide), conventional farming, hand-harvested
- Vinification
- Grapes crushed and destemmed, macerated about 4 days until two thirds of the alcohol is made, extracting colour and soft tannins; filtered to stop fermentation, then a second fermentation (presa di spuma) up to about 6% alcohol; no malolactic; at least 1 month in bottle.
- Storage
- Ageing potential 2 years.