Winery BertaLa Difesa Grappa di Amarone Riserva
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Berta's La Difesa Grappa di Amarone Riserva.
Discover the grape variety: Petit Manseng
Petit Manseng is a white grape variety of Pyrenean origin. Its small berries have a hard, well-ventilated skin, which allows Petit Manseng to resist grey rot. On the other hand, this variety is very sensitive to noble rot, which concentrates the aromas and makes it possible to produce remarkable sweet wines with flavours of exotic fruits, grapefruit, honey, gingerbread, etc. Rich in alcohol and acidity, these wines are very well balanced and very fine. petit manseng also produces fruity dry white wines. It is also used in the AOC Béarn, Jurançon, Pacherenc-du-Vic-Bilh, Tursan...
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Informations about the Winery Berta
The Winery Berta is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 55 wines for sale in the of Grappa di Amarone to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Grappa di Amarone
The wine region of Grappa di Amarone is located in the region of Amarone della Valpolicella of Vénétie of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Marzadro or the Domaine Distillerie Bonollo produce mainly wines sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Grappa di Amarone are Rondinella, Corvina and Molinara, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. We currently count 23 estates and châteaux in the of Grappa di Amarone, producing 31 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture.
The wine region of Veneto
Veneto is an important and growing wine region in northeastern Italy. Veneto is administratively Part of the Triveneto area, aLong with its smaller neighbors, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In terms of geography, culture and wine styles, it represents a transition from the Alpine and Germanic-Slavic end of Italy to the warmer, drier, more Roman lands to the South. Veneto is slightly smaller than the other major Italian wine regions - Piedmont, Tuscany, Lombardy, Puglia and Sicily - but it produces more wine than any of them.
The word of the wine: Vinification of sweet wines
Moelleux and liquoreux wines are characterized by the presence of residual sugars (natural sugar of the grape), not transformed into alcohol under the effect of yeasts. The fermentation is stopped by cold and by the addition of sulphur dioxide (sulphur).
