2009 Ferrari Perlé

"Michael Nielsen" ha scritto

i tried the Giulio Ferrari - Riserva del fondatore (10 years on lies), it was a wine tasting with many vintages, with owner explaing them. It is absolutely fantastic, 100% chardonnay from the best area they have in Trentino.

i don't understand "it's made like a champagne, not as a spumante", what is it supposed to mean?

Hamlet

Asti spumante is generally produced through the Charmat method (secondary f ermentation in tank) rather than methode champenoise (secondary fermnentati on in bottle)

Asti spumante is generally produced through the Charmat method (secondary fermentation in tank) rather than methode champenoise (secondary fermnentation in bottle)

ok, so he was speaking about the method, not about the style in Italy there is a tradition of over a century of spumante made with method champenoise (in Italy is it called "metodo classico"), so there is no need to use Charmat method, specially if you want to make a high profile spumante. And Ferrari makes only spumante with champenoise method.

Hamlet

The problem here I think is that, while spumante refers to a degree of carbonation, most here in US (and elsewhere) think of cheap Asti spumante that is found everywhere and use spumante as shorthand for those wines (better, perhaps, than using the good name of Asti for them!).

Mark Lipton

i understand but in Italy there are spumantemethod champenoise that are absolutely high level, you can compare them with Champagne. The most important ones are made in Trentino (Trentodoc is the name of them) and in Franciacorta (near Milan). The problem is that outside of Italy not many people know them.

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