Winemaker Notes
A sparkling wine of pronounced finesse. Perfect served as an aperitif or with lighter dishes, especially seafood.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Ferrari does a great job with its Chardonnay-based sparkling wines. The 2010 Trento Metodo Classico Perlé Brut is a prime example. The winery's signature style includes more creaminess in terms of texture and yeasty notes of fresh baguette on the nose. You get both here with balanced intensity. Disgorged in early 2017, this is a soft and sophisticated sparkler that has the textural finesse to pair with oysters or raw sea urchin roe.
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James Suckling
A dense and pretty white with apple pie and lemon character. Full and layered. Very fruity yet holds back with bright acidity and attractive complexity. A hint of bitterness. Drink now.
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.
The southern part of Italy’s northeastern Alpine region, Trentino, produces quality wines from international varieties. But its most exceptional native variety, Teroldego, with plantings concentrated around the sandy, gravelly, limestone soils of its Campo Rotaliano district, makes a deep purple-hued red wine with scents and flavors of wild blackberry, herbs, espresso and cocoa.