Le Marchesine Franciacorta Extra Brut Bottle:12 litchi and apricot

litchi and apricot

Youthful purple colour

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

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

On the nose ripe apple and hints of white flower are evident

Le Marchesine Franciacorta Extra Brut Bottle:12 litchi and apricotThe 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,