Type of wine: Red
Classification: DOC
Region: Lazio
Area of production: Frascati.
Grapes: 100% Cesanese
Alcohol: 14.5%vol.
Colour: Ruby-red with garnet red hints.
Bouquet: Ethereal, with light vanilla perfumes, intense and elegant.
Taste: Dry, warm and persistent.
Food Pairings: Excellent with roasted and grilled meat, game and cheese.
Service temperature: 18°C.
Tasting Note: A fine example of Cesanese, a red grape from Italy’s Lazio region, near Rome, full of vanilla and strawberry jam, with a luscious hit of red plum on the tongue.
Food Matching: Goes very well with veal and grilled steak although a good match to all grilled or roasted red meats.
Vinification: Fermentation lasts about 15 days at a controlled temperature of 30-32 °C. The wine is decanted twice, by making another contact with marcs for several days. After having been decanted the wine is kept in a steel vat and later on in wood for 12 months and then refined in bottle.