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Sparkling Malvasia Bianca NV

Sparkling Malvasia Bianca NV Wine Details
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Description: Silver Medal San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2005 *Bronze Medal San Francisco Bay Wine Competition 2005. In the festive Spumante-style, this sweet and bubbly is amply laced in flavors of Malvasia peach, dried apricot and clover honey, with an edge of pink grapefruit. Its panoply of fizzy and fruity pleasures will pair nicely with your next mixed stone-fruit upside down cake.

Varietal Definition
Malvasia:
Semi-classic grape cepage of ancient, probably Greek, origin. Widely grown in Italy as distinctive area sub-varieties, such as Malvasia di Candia, Malvasia Istriana etc. Used to produce dry and sweet white, and light red, wines with high alcohol content and residual sugar. Also widely grown in Portugal and the island of Madeira where the important wine-name Malmsey is an English word corruption of Malvasia.


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