Franciacorta Brut Riserva 2000

Bersi Serlini (Italy)

Franciacorta (Lombardy)

Chardonnay (75%), Pinot Bianco (25%)
Sparkling Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

This Franciacorta shows a brilliant golden yellow color and nuances of straw yellow, very transparent, fine and persistent perlage. The nose denotes intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas that start with hints of apple, plum and bread crust followed by aromas of banana, pineapple, croissant, butter, hawthorn, yeast, jasmine, apple and grapefruit. The mouth has good correspondence to the nose, an effervescent and crisp attack, however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with flavors of apple, plum and grapefruit. Franciacorta Brut Riserva ages for 50 months in bottle on its lees.

Alcohol: 12.5%

Roasted fish, Roasted white meat, Stewed fish, Stuffed pasta

Suggested glass	11 °C (51 °F)
(Mature and Vintage Classic Method Sparkling Wines)

Issue 48, January 2007

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