Paltrinieri - Lambrusco di Sorbara 'Radice', Italy (NV)

TASTING NOTES

Red fruit, rhubarb, grapefruit, white nectarine and a touch of fresh bread. An intense perlage and a light body with high acid give this wine a persistent and refreshing finish. Unfiltered so expect some light sediment.

The Sorbara grape is the thinnest skinned of the Lambrusco grape varieties typically providing rosé wines with a more savoury and elegant fruit profile. The fruit is a little more nuanced and subtle in this wine with a sense of minerality providing a taut mouthful.  

Ancestral method rosé Lambrusco from Emilia-Romagna, meaning the fermentation is in the bottle on the lees (yeast), resulting in more effervescence, a drier wine, and slightly yeasty, toasty notes.

Paltrinieri is one of the masters of Lambrusco producing wines with the family making wines in the Sorbara area since the early 1900s. They have contributed greatly to the qualitative growth of the area's wines, with labels that express the best qualities of this ancient native vine.