Franciacorta Extra Brut 2005

Ricci Curbastro (Italy)

Franciacorta (Lombardy)

Chardonnay (50%), Pinot Nero (50%)
Sparkling Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This Franciacorta Extra Brut shows a pale straw yellow color and nuances of greenish yellow, very transparent, fine and persistent perlage. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant aromas which start with hints of banana, apple and bread crust followed by aromas of hawthorn, yeast, plum, pineapple, tangerine, hazelnut, grapefruit and butter. The mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp and effervescent attack, however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with flavors of banana, grapefruit and hazelnut. This Franciacorta Extra Brut referments in bottle on its lees for at least 42 months.

Alcohol: 12.5%

Roasted fish, Roasted white meat, Stuffed pasta, Fried fish, Broiled crustaceans

Suggested glass	12 °C (53 °F)
(Mature and Vintage Classic Method Sparkling Wines)

January 2010

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