Contadi Castaldi Franciacorta Brut Saten 2020 750ml

A fragrant wine, which immediately seduces you with its originality, presaging an exceptionally fresh taste. The style plays strongly on a quest for harmony between complexity and pleasure, in keeping with the sweetness of expression of the Franciacorta area. The colour is a bright straw, with a fine and persistent pérlage. The nose is fresh and elegant, with clear bouquets of hawthorn, bread crust, balsamic notes, hints of apple rennet, dried figs and peanuts. Soft in the mouth, but not sweet, it has a fresh pleasant flavor. The finish is long and dense. Aged 30-36 months on the lees.

• Country: Italy
• Region: Lombardy
• Appellation: Franciacorta
• Size: 750ml

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.