Sparkling
Millesimato Extra Brut
By Marcalberto, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Millesimato Extra Brut is Marcalberto's single-vintage Alta Langa DOCG, made each year from an internal selection of that harvest's best musts and aged at least 36 months on the lees. The current tech sheet is for the 2016 vintage.
Tasting notes
Delicate and persistent perlage, bright straw yellow colour with subtle amber hints, notes of freshly baked bread on the nose, a palate of considerable structure and an exceptional mouthfilling quality.
Pairs well with
Ideal with finger food, and a good companion throughout the meal, though not with desserts.
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Denomination
- Alta Langa DOCG
- Grape
- Pinot Nero, Chardonnay
- Production area
- Estate vineyards within 10 km of the winery, at 250-620 m altitude, on varied exposures
- Soil
- Marly and chalky
- Harvest
- Last ten days of August
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training system
- Vinification
- Manual harvest, soft whole-bunch pressing on the Coquard press with fractionated pressing and low yields, fermentation partly in steel tanks and partly in used French oak barrels, then aged in old wood for about 7 months with weekly bâtonnage, unfiltered and unclarified, and at least 36 months sur lie in bottle.
- Serving temperature
- 7-9°C
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