Region: Piemonte
Quality Level in EU/Italian Wine Law: Langhe DOC
Established: Typically 100% Favorita and often blended across sites. For example, Bel Colle blends from Roero and Barolo vineyards.
Primary Grape Varieties: Varietal Favorita and typically 100%. DOC requires 85%. This variety is a bio type of Verrmentino but is generally treated as a different variety.
Pairs with: Cheese or fish based dishes.
Characteristics: A typical italian white wine with pale, lemon=colored appearance. The wines are medium plus to high in acid, dry and often kept on lees for several months. Often has a fuller body (medium plus) in a refreshing and vibrant offering. Surprisingly aromatic, floral and with a strong indication of minerality and only a bit of the lingering herbal character that is stronger in Vermentino. Citrus (lemon and lemon curd, lime, lime pith, sometimes a candied orange note), wet stone, blossom, green apple, pear, a touch of honeysuckle and often a touch of spice and brioche.
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Serve: Chilled
Favorita is a grape, local to the Piemonte region and should be wider known. It prefers sandy sites that don’t support the Piemontese red varietals. Many sites face south or east and vines are trained in Guyot.
The resulting wines are more complex than you would normally expect with a significant phenolic character (generally from months of lees contact.
The wines are medium alcohol and varietal in nature. They are pressed with little or no skin contract and fermented in neutral stainless steel. Lees contact is generally three months and this variety seems to emphasize the phenolic nature of the lees as well as more autolytic notes than one might expect.
The wines are good to very good in quality with excellent examples bu Bel Colle and Deltetto (See Below)
Quality Level in EU/Italian Wine Law: Langhe DOC
Established: Typically 100% Favorita and often blended across sites. For example, Bel Colle blends from Roero and Barolo vineyards.
Primary Grape Varieties: Varietal Favorita and typically 100%. DOC requires 85%. This variety is a bio type of Verrmentino but is generally treated as a different variety.
Pairs with: Cheese or fish based dishes.
Characteristics: A typical italian white wine with pale, lemon=colored appearance. The wines are medium plus to high in acid, dry and often kept on lees for several months. Often has a fuller body (medium plus) in a refreshing and vibrant offering. Surprisingly aromatic, floral and with a strong indication of minerality and only a bit of the lingering herbal character that is stronger in Vermentino. Citrus (lemon and lemon curd, lime, lime pith, sometimes a candied orange note), wet stone, blossom, green apple, pear, a touch of honeysuckle and often a touch of spice and brioche.
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Price: $+
Serve: Chilled
Favorita is a grape, local to the Piemonte region and should be wider known. It prefers sandy sites that don’t support the Piemontese red varietals. Many sites face south or east and vines are trained in Guyot.
The resulting wines are more complex than you would normally expect with a significant phenolic character (generally from months of lees contact.
The wines are medium alcohol and varietal in nature. They are pressed with little or no skin contract and fermented in neutral stainless steel. Lees contact is generally three months and this variety seems to emphasize the phenolic nature of the lees as well as more autolytic notes than one might expect.
The wines are good to very good in quality with excellent examples bu Bel Colle and Deltetto (See Below)
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