Winemaker Notes
Blend: 65% Chardonnay, 22% Pinot Nero, 13% Pinot Bianco
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Really impressive with fine, zesty lemons and limes, together with a savory, nutty thread. The palate has a crisp and appealing style, as well as freshness and length. Drink now.
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Wine Enthusiast
Vibrant and boasting a creamy finesse, this radiant sparkler offers heady scents of spring flower, white orchard fruit and bread crust. The palate dazzles with yellow apple, juicy Bartlett pear, Meyer lemon and mineral, all framed in a silky mousse and racy acidity.
Representing the topmost expression of a Champagne house, a vintage Champagne is one made from the produce of a single, superior harvest year. Vintage Champagnes account for a mere 5% of total Champagne production and are produced about three times in a decade. Champagne is typically made as a blend of multiple years in order to preserve the house style; these will have non-vintage, or simply, NV on the label. The term, "vintage," as it applies to all wine, simply means a single harvest year.
Containing an exciting mix of wine producing subregions, Lombardy is Italy’s largest in size and population. Good quality Pinot noir, Bonarda and Barbera have elevated the reputation of the plains of Oltrepò Pavese. To its northeast in the Alps, Valtellina is the source of Italy’s best Nebbiolo wines outside of Piedmont. Often missed in the shadow of Prosecco, Franciacorta produces collectively Italy’s best Champagne style wines, and for the fun and less serious bubbly, find Lambrusco Mantovano around the city of Mantua. Lugana, a dry white with a devoted following, is produced to the southwest of Lake Garda.