Franciacorta Dosage Zero Millesimato 1998

Ca' del Bosco (Italy)

Chardonnay (65%), Pinot Bianco (16%), Pinot Nero (19%)
Sparkling Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This sparkling wine shows a very fine perlage, good quantity of persistent bubbles, good foam. The color is intense straw yellow and nuances of straw yellow, crystalline. The nose reveals good personality, elegance, complex and clean aromas such as pineapple, banana, butter, bread crust, kiwi, yeast, lemon, litchi, unripe apple, honey, hazelnut and pear. In mouth has a pleasing dry and crisp attack, excellent correspondence to the nose, intense flavors and balanced. The finish is persistent with pleasing flavors of pear, banana, honey and pineapple. This Franciacorta is produced with a wine aged both in steel tanks and small oak casks. The wine stays on lees for a minimum of 35 months before being disgorged.
Alcohol: 12.5%
White meat, Pasta and risotto with vegetables and fish, Roasted fish, Fried fish, Crustaceans
Suggested glass	12 °C (53 °F)
(Mature and Vintage Classic Method Sparkling Wines)
Issue 8, May 2003