The Franciacorta New Years Eve Box
About the mixbox
Your package will arrive at your doorstep within4 - 16 days
Ricci Curbastro Azienda Agricola will receive and pack your order (1 - 4 days)
The courier will pick up your order and deliver it straight to your door
Price
Price incl. alcohol tax, shipping and VAT.
Your package will arrive at your doorstep within4 - 16 days
Ricci Curbastro Azienda Agricola will receive and pack your order (1 - 4 days)
The courier will pick up your order and deliver it straight to your door
What's in your box?
Winemaker's notes
Since 2008, Curtefranca is the DOC that replaces the name of Terre di Franciacorta. The change of name of this historic ...Product details
- Country:
Italy- Region/Subregion:
- Lombardia/Franciacorta
- Classification:
- DOC
- Certification:
- Organic
- Grape:
- Pinot Bianco (40%), Chardonnay (60%)
- Vintage year:
- 2023
- Color:
- Pale straw yellow with brilliant greenish hues
- Aroma:
- delicate, elegant, persistent, and intense with fine hints of fresh fruit.
- Taste:
- dry but not harsh, pleasant freshness underlined by an acidy character, with a subtle, but sturdy backbone.
- Alcohol content:
- 11.5%
- Sweetness:
- Dry
- Volume:
- 750 ml
- Best Served:
- 8 - 10 °C
Food pairings by the winemaker
- Aperitif
- Buffet food
- Cheese - goat cheese
- Cheese - mild and soft
- Fish - lean
- Pasta / Pizza
- Poultry
- Shellfish - natural
Vinification, winemaker's own words
- Soil:
- Gravel
- Terroir:
- In the morainic amphitheatre of Lake Iseo in the villages of Capriolo and Iseo
- Harvest:
- Picked by hand
- Fermentation:
- Steel (100%)
- Storage:
- Steel (100%) 8 months
The temperature-controlled fermentation in steel vats is followed in the spring by the bottling process.
Winemaker's notes
The great richness of the lands, emphasized by zoning research, carried out by the Franciacorta Wine Consortium in the e...Product details
- Country:
- Italy
- Region/Subregion:
- Lombardia/Franciacorta
- Classification:
- DOC
- Certification:
- None
- Grape:
- Barbera (10%), Cabernet Sauvignon (20%), Carmenère (15%), Cabernet Franc (25%), Merlot (30%)
- Vintage year:
- 2017
- Color:
- deep ruby red, clear, and consistent.
- Aroma:
- intense, extremely delicate and harmonious, with hints of wood and ripe fruit.
- Taste:
- continuous, with character, full and silky with nice contribution by the Cabernet. In the mouth, it has a fine and continuative flavor, with noticeably good acidity that is, however, well combined with its smoothness.
- Alcohol content:
- 13%
- Sweetness:
- Dry
- Volume:
- 750 ml
- Best Served:
- 16 - 18 °C
Food pairings by the winemaker
- Asian
- Beef
- Buffet food
- Charcuterie
- Cheese - goat cheese
- Cheese - mature and hard
- Cheese - mild and soft
- Game
- Lamb
- Mushrooms
- Pasta / Pizza
- Pork
- Poultry
- Veal
- Vegetables
Vinification, winemaker's own words
- Soil:
- Gravel
- Terroir:
- Santella del Gröm Vineyard in the town of Adro, sheet 10 – cadastral map 638, covers an area of 1.45 hectares (3,60 acres). Plant density: 4,500 plants/hectare (1820 plants/acre) replanted in 1992. Average altitude of 210 meters (683 feet) above sea level.
- Harvest:
- Picked by hand
- Fermentation:
- Steel (100%)
- Storage:
- Old oak (100%) 24 months
cold maceration for about 4 days, followed by temperature-controlled fermentation in large, open stainless steel vats, followed by fining process of at least 24 months of maturation in oak barrels before bottling, then undergoes an additional aging stage for another year.
Winemaker's notes
Characterized by a lower pressure in the bottle (maximum 5.0 atm), which provides a bead of extreme subtlety, persistenc...Product details
- Country:
- Italy
- Region/Subregion:
- Lombardia/Franciacorta
- Classification:
- DOCG
- Certification:
- None
- Grape:
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Vintage year:
- 2020
- Color:
- straw yellow, clear, and brilliant.
- Aroma:
- to the nose, it presents a substantial presence of ripe, thick, and dense fruity notes that mix with spicy aromas and yeasts, which are reminiscent of toasty, almond notes
- Taste:
- of great elegance, it presents again to the palate the same olfactory sensations sustained by body and structure, enlivened by a slight acidity.
- Alcohol content:
- 12.5%
- Sweetness:
- Dry
- Volume:
- 750 ml
- Best Served:
- 8 - 10 °C
Food pairings by the winemaker
- Buffet food
- Cheese - goat cheese
- Cheese - mature and hard
- Cheese - mild and soft
- Fish - lean
- Fish - fat
- Pasta / Pizza
- Poultry
- Shellfish - flavored
- Shellfish - natural
- Veal
- Vegetables
Vinification, winemaker's own words
- Soil:
- Gravel
- Terroir:
- Franciacorta is located in the Lombardy region, in the province of Brescia. Demarcated east by the last morainal rocky foothills of the Alps, west by the Oglio River, north by the shores of Lake Iseo, and south by the high Po Valley.
- Harvest:
- Picked by hand
- Fermentation:
- Steel (30%), New oak (70%)
- Storage:
- Steel (30%) 7 months, New oak (70%) 7 months
After the tirage process with the start of a slow second fermentation in bottles, according to the traditional Franciacorta method, the bottles are stacked for at least 40 months. After the disgorgement stage, with the addition of a very dry liqueur de dosage (4g/liter), the Franciacorta undergoes another fining period in the wine cellar for several months.
Ricci Curbastro Azienda Agricola
Curtefranca Bianco D.O.C
195,15 SEK / Bottle
Winemaker's notes
Product details
- Country:
- Italy
- Region/Subregion:
- Lombardia/Franciacorta
- Classification:
- DOC
- Certification:
- Organic
- Grape:
- Pinot Bianco (40%), Chardonnay (60%)
- Vintage year:
- 2023
- Color:
- Pale straw yellow with brilliant greenish hues
- Aroma:
- delicate, elegant, persistent, and intense with fine hints of fresh fruit.
- Taste:
- dry but not harsh, pleasant freshness underlined by an acidy character, with a subtle, but sturdy backbone.
- Alcohol content:
- 11.5%
- Sugar content:
- N/A
- Acidity:
- N/A
- Sweetness:
- Dry
- Volume:
- 750 ml
- Closure:
- Synthetic cork
- Best Served:
- 8 - 10 °C
Food pairings by the winemaker
Vinification, winemaker's own words
- Soil:
- Gravel
- Terroir:
- In the morainic amphitheatre of Lake Iseo in the villages of Capriolo and Iseo
- Harvest:
- Picked by hand
- Fermentation:
- Steel (100%)
- Storage:
- Steel (100%) 8 months
The temperature-controlled fermentation in steel vats is followed in the spring by the bottling process.
About Ricci Curbastro Azienda Agricola
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