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Mirabella
Franciacorta Brut DOCG
Franciacorta · Italy·Non-vintage
Critics
Tasting note
The Mirabella Brut has delicate notes of yeast and baked bread with a sophisticated fruitiness, golden apple and banana. Balanced, with medium texture and pleasant aftertaste, perfect acidity.
The wine
- Grape
- Chardonnay 80%, Pinot Bianco 20%
- Style
- Sparkling
- Size
- 750ml
- Winemaker
- Teresio Schiavi (founder-oenologist); Alessandro Schiavi (cellar master)
- Vine age
- Average 26 years
- Yield
- Max. 95 quintals/ha
- Vinification
- Hand-harvested in small crates (first half of August). Whole-bunch soft pressing (65% yield); fermentation at 16–18°C in concrete vats; 10–15% reserve wines; tirage the spring after harvest.
- Ageing
- Minimum 30 months on the lees. Brut, residual sugar < 5 g/l.
- Soil
- Glacial moraine
The producer
Mirabella
Franciacorta, LombardyFounded 197945 ha of vineyardmirabellafranciacorta.it
Mirabella was founded in 1979 by oenologist Teresio Schiavi and friend Giacomo Cavalli inside an old spinning mill at Paderno Franciacorta, among the first houses to bet on the Franciacorta name. Today Teresio and his sons Alessandro and Alberto run 45 hectares of DOCG vineyard across Paderno, Passirano, Bornato and Provaglio d'Iseo, and are known for using Pinot Bianco (rare in Franciacorta) and for long lees ageing well beyond the DOCG minimums.