Winery BenincasaFrizzante Pignoletto
Sparkling wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Benincasa's Frizzante Pignoletto.
Discover the grape variety: Cornalin du Valais
Very old vine cultivated in the Swiss Valais, resulting from a natural crossing between the petit rouge(*) and the mayolet. It is the father of red humagne, also called cornalin d'Aoste, the grandfather of durize or petit rouge du Valais or rouge de Fully and a relative of goron. - Synonymy: old red of Valais, red of the country in Switzerland, landroter (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!). - Description: medium-sized bunches, cylindrical, winged, compact, strong medium-sized peduncles with little lignification; medium-sized berries, spherical or short elliptical, skin of a beautiful bluish black colour with a lot of bloom. The foliage turns completely red in the fall. - Production potential: early budding in the year. Capricious and difficult variety. Particularly likes the limestone soils of well exposed hillsides that warm up quickly enough, lean and well drained. Semi-erect bearing, vigorous with irregular production. Resists well to winter frosts. Susceptible to the main diseases, especially to oidium and grey rot. Also susceptible to magnesium deficiency and stalk dehydration. Maturity: 3rd early season
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Informations about the Winery Benincasa
The Winery Benincasa is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in the of Modena to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Modena
The wine region of Modena is located in the region of Émilie-Romagne of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Chiarli 1860 or the Domaine Cantina di Sorbara produce mainly wines sparkling, red and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Modena are Chardonnay, Sangiovese and Ancellotta, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Modena often reveals types of flavors of cherry, spices or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, floral or non oak.
The wine region of Emilia-Romagna
Romagna/emilia">Emilia-Romagna is a Rich and fertile region in Northern Italy, and one of the country's most prolific wine-producing regions, with over 58,000 hectares (143,320 acres) of vines in 2010. It is 240 kilometers (150 miles) wide and stretches across almost the entire northern Italian peninsula, sandwiched between Tuscany to the South, Lombardy and Veneto to the north and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Nine miles of Liguria is all that separates Emilia-Romagna from the Ligurian Sea, and its uniqueness as the only Italian region with both an east and west coast. Emilia-Romagna's wine-growing heritage dates back to the seventh century BC, making it one of the oldest wine-growing regions in Italy.
The word of the wine: Female
Characterizes wines whose pleasantness results from elegance and finesse rather than power.
