Winemaker Notes
Ferrari Perle Nero offers a seductive appearance in the glass, thanks to its brilliant golden yellow hue, rendered even more appealing by a dense perlage of tiny bubbles. The bouquet is rich and complex, displaying very intense notes of nuts, panettone, citrusy hints and a suggestion of salted butter. The palate reveals elegant structure and satisfying balance, giving way to a long, persistent finish with delicate toasted nuances and other, more spicy ones, reminiscent of panpepato cake.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This is Pinot Nero fermented off the skins. The 2010 Trento Metodo Classico Perlé Nero Riserva Extra Brut is a gorgeous wine with mid-weight structure followed by a firm and steely approach that would make it ideal for food pairing. It ages on the yeasts in bottle for at least six years. Aromas of crushed stone frame a core of citrus and peachy fruit. With just two grams of sugar per liter, you feel the tangy dryness of the elegant finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
Made entirely with Pinot Nero, this gorgeous sparkler offers enticing scents of bread crust, pear, Alpine herb and yellow flower. Boasting layers of depth, the elegantly structured palate delivers creamy apple, citrus zest, white peach, pomegranate and brioche set against a silky, continuous perlage. Fresh acidity keeps it balanced, while the dry finish closes on a hint of white almond
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Wine Spectator
Smoke-tinged toast and orange peel accents combine with sleek acidity to create a firm frame for this balanced version, which shows additional notes of cherry, spice and walnut skin. Drink now through 2024.
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.