Winery Cantina ValpantenaCangrande Moscato
Sparkling wine
This wine generally goes well with sweet desserts
Food and wine pairings with Cangrande Moscato
Pairings that work perfectly with Cangrande Moscato
Original food and wine pairings with Cangrande Moscato
The Cangrande Moscato of Winery Cantina Valpantena matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts such as recipes of homemade cookies.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cantina Valpantena's Cangrande Moscato.
Discover the grape variety: Carignan
Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cangrande Moscato from Winery Cantina Valpantena are 2008, 0
Informations about the Winery Cantina Valpantena
The Winery Cantina Valpantena is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 98 wines for sale in the of Veneto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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: Wiring
Action of periodically filling barrels containing wine, in order to offset evaporation and maintain a maximum level. The topping up allows to avoid the phenomenon of oxidation.
