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Mirabella
Franciacorta Saten DOCG
Franciacorta · Italy·Vintage 2021
Tasting note
The Mirabella Satèn is delicate and intense with a sensation of honey, banana and yeast, fragrant vanilla. Low gassing and sugary syrup enhance its smoothness. Pleasantly sharp and good persistence.
The wine
- Grape
- Chardonnay 100%
- Style
- Sparkling
- Size
- 750ml
- Winemaker
- Teresio Schiavi (founder-oenologist); Alessandro Schiavi (cellar master)
- Vine age
- Average 28 years
- Yield
- Max. 90 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% in barrique; vintage base wines only.
- Ageing
- Minimum 30 months on the lees. Brut, residual sugar < 6 g/l.
- Soil
- Deep fluvio-glacial and morainic
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.