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Mirabella
Rosé Franciacorta DOCG
Franciacorta · Italy·Non-vintage
Critics
Tasting note
The Mirabella Rosè is rich and full with typical fragrance of yeast, as well as wild berries and hints of vanilla. Harmonious, smooth. perfect acidity.
The wine
- Grape
- Pinot Nero 45%, Chardonnay 45%, Pinot Bianco 10%
- 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); 18–24 hours' skin contact for the Pinot Noir; fermentation at 16–18°C in concrete vats; 5–10% reserve wines.
- Ageing
- Minimum 30 months on the lees. Brut, residual sugar < 5.5 g/l.
- Soil
- Deep morainic and fluvio-glacial
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.