Winery Fratta MinorePignoletto
Sparkling wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Fratta Minore's Pignoletto.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin
Chenin, also known as pinot de la Loire Valley (pineau), is the flagship grape variety of the Loire Valley. It would have found its first origins in Anjou where it would have been cultivated by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur located between Angers and Saumur since the 6th century. chenin is a great white grape variety which likes particularly the chalky soils called here stones of tufa which were used for the construction of the castles of the Loire Valley. Its bunches are medium-sized, fairly compact and its berries are more or less small. It is an early variety, which resists well to diseases. Chenin has the particularity of being able to participate as well in the elaboration of dry white wines as of sweet white wines or sparkling wines. Perfectly structured by the acidity, elegant, with a complex nose and aromas of yellow fruits, dry fruits, citrus fruits, white flowers, honey... the wine resulting from the chenin is rather lively and nervous, which allows him a good potential of guard. Chenin covers about 10,000 hectares in France, and is very productive in South Africa where it covers more than 26,000 hectares.
Informations about the Winery Fratta Minore
The Winery Fratta Minore is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in the of Colli Bolognesi Classico Pignoletto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Colli Bolognesi Classico Pignoletto
The wine region of Colli Bolognesi Classico Pignoletto is located in the region of Colli Bolognesi of Émilie-Romagne of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Cantine Sgarzi Luigi or the Domaine La Battagliola produce mainly wines sparkling, white and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Colli Bolognesi Classico Pignoletto are Chardonnay, Pinot blanc and Pinot noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Colli Bolognesi Classico Pignoletto often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, vegetal or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth, 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: Texture
In tasting, the equivalent of touch. It is the set of tactile sensations perceived by the mucous membranes of the mouth: silky, velvety, sticky, fatty, astringent, pasty, etc.
