Winery ContriPacena Gran Dessert Spumante Dolce
Sparkling wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Contri's Pacena Gran Dessert Spumante Dolce.
Discover the grape variety: Savagnin
Savagnin is a white grape variety originating from the Austrian Tyrol. It arrived in Franche Comté and quickly became the flagship variety of the Jura. Cousin of the gewurztraminer, it gives small white bunches. Its berries have a thick skin which resists well to grey rot and to diseases in general. Savagnin thrives on marl soils and is a very aromatic grape variety. It is used in the elaboration of yellow wine, the AOC Château-Châlon is the most representative. This grape variety also produces vin de paille which is a sweet wine for which the ripe grapes are dried on a bed of straw for at least 6 weeks before being pressed. The best known AOC straw wines are: Arbois, Côtes-du-Jura and Etoile. Savagnin is also used to make Macvin du Jura, a liqueur wine, and to make Crémants du Jura.White wines made from Savagnin have great aging potential. They have a powerful and complex aroma with notes of walnut, almonds, hazelnuts, flowers, honey and green apple.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Pacena Gran Dessert Spumante Dolce from Winery Contri are 2008, 0
Informations about the Winery Contri
The Winery Contri is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 59 wines for sale in the of Verona to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Verona
The wine region of Verona is located in the region of Vénétie of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Fasoli Gino or the Domaine Fasoli Gino produce mainly wines red, white and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Verona are Corvina, Garganega and Rondinella, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Verona often reveals types of flavors of apples, spices or oil and sometimes also flavors of fennel, non oak or microbio.
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: Ladle
Said of a wine that is not clear due to the presence of colloidal suspensions that prevent the passage of light.
