Franciacorta Cuvée Annamaria Clementi 1996

Ca' del Bosco (Italy)

Chardonnay (55%), Pinot Bianco (25%), Pinot Nero (20%)
Sparkling Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✧

A great sparkling wine. It has a very fine perlage and persistent bubbles in great quantity, abundant and persistent foam. The nose reveals great personality, with very elegant, refined, clean and pleasing aromas such as apricot, pineapple, banana, butter, bread crust, yeast, litchi, apple, honey, hazelnut, pear, grapefruit and vanilla. In the mouth has an excellent correspondence to the nose, crisp and balanced attack with pleasing, clean and intense flavors. The finish is very persistent and practically endless with clean and pleasing flavors of banana, litchi, pineapple, honey, pear, apple and grapefruit. A magnificent sparkling wine. Cuvée Annamaria Clementi is produced with a base wine fermented in barrique and undergoes full malolactic fermentation and therefore is aged in barrique for 7 months. It stays on the lees for 5 years and 8 months.
Alcohol: 12.5%
Roasted white meat, Pasta and risotto with fish, Stuffed pasta, Roasted spiced fish
Suggested glass	11 °C (51 °F)
(Mature and Vintage Classic Method Sparkling Wines)
Issue 8, May 2003