Le Marchesine Franciacorta Extra Brut Bottle:12 The brut is fresh and

The brut is fresh and delicate

Stainless steel tanks help to preserve the brightness and balance of this wine

produced exlusively in good vintages from the best grapes and this vouches for its excellent reputation

Drink with sauced full-bodied fish

American oak adds notes of vanilla and nuts while finishing in Irish whiskey barrels adds complex spice notes and mellow smoothness

Le Marchesine Franciacorta Extra Brut Bottle:12 The brut is fresh andThe colour is rather pale straw yellow. The bouquet is immediately spicy, mineral, at times smoky, reminiscent of citrus peel, fruit with a sweet pulp, but with a leathery skin, plum, gooseberry, then moves on to more vegetal notes, vine leaf, elder flowers and essential oils of bergamot, dill and wild fennel. In the mouth it has excellent tension, very direct, clean, thirst quenching, pleasingly dry; the salty acid component emerges significantly,