Le Marchesine Franciacorta Brut Saten Millesimato 2021 750ml

The color is a beautiful and bright straw-yellow, where gold peeps out, minute fizz, of great continuum. The aroma is initially bashful, opens gently on vanilla notes, white chocolate, followed by wildflowers, chamomile, then ranges on almond milk and white pepper, closes with hints of chalky and oyster water. On the palate is creamy, the fizz denotes great wrapping; it has excellent persistence, complete, tasty and rich in nuances of pastry, ripe yellow fruit, sometimes exotic and citrus meringue.

• Country: Italy
• Region: Lombardy
• Appellation: Franciacorta
• Size: 750ml
• Alcohol by Vol: 13.0%

Varietal

Champagne Blend

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn’t unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as ‘blanc de blanc’, meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or ‘blanc de noir’, which is made solely with Pinot Noir.