Monte Del Fra, Custoza White Italian Wine, 75cl

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With a pale salmon pink colour this attractive rose is bright and zippy but also has some warm, savoury spiciness. There’s a lively twist to it and it would make a fine partner for food.” Sunday Express

The Brut, Extra Brut, and Extra Dry varieties of the Custoza Spumante DOC wine are produced using the sparkling method. It can be made using the Charmat method or, if refermented in the bottle, the Classic method. The flavor is fresh, soft, and acidic with a delicate and floral scent. Custoza Passito DOC wine Harvest: The harvest is done completely manually, starting from the second week of September, following the different maturation time of the vines. The last vine to be harvested is Garganega, at the beginning of October. It's actually a very beautiful volcanic area that's UNESCO world-recognised, producing gorgeous sparkling wines at different price points that I hope you enjoy. Custoza DOC can only be produced from grapes from vineyards on the hills and foothills of the municipalities of its nine municipalities. It's a country that I love and creates some fantastic wines at multiple price points, and I think they're particularly unique.

Some of the dishes that go well with Custoza wines include fried aole, rigatoni from Valeggio, gnocchi from Lessinia, risotto with asparagus from Rivoli, or Bisi, and lake fish like whitefish, trout, eel, sardines, pike, tench, and carp. Interesting Places to Visit at Custoza wine appellation Ossuary of Custoza

The white-fruit vines grown in the Custoza area are those of the production disciplinary: Garganega, Trebbianello, Bianca Fernanda, Malvasia Toscana, Riesling Italico, Sauvignon, Pinot Bianco, Chardonnay and Cross Manzoni. Let’s see the main ones: Garganega It is made from grapes that were chosen from a late harvest on a vine that produces less than Custoza. The production discipline mandates that a minimum natural alcoholic strength of 11 degrees be maintained in the grapes intended for vinification. It is a strong, powerful white that has a full body and can age well. It seems straw-colored at first glance, with hints of golden yellow, and has a lovely aroma with notes of ripe fruit and subtle fragrant notes. Bianco di Custoza Spumante DOC The Custoza production is around 130 quintals/ha for the Custoza DOC and 120 quintals/ha for the Superiore. The wines included in the DOC are Custoza, Custoza Riserva, Custoza Superiore, Custoza Spumante and Custoza Passito. The Veneto area in northeastern Italy produces the white DOC wine known as Bianco di Custoza (or just Custoza). Although not very big, the Custoza wine production region takes up most of the southern portion of the morainic hill range that runs between Verona and Lake Garda (Do Custoza wines age well in 2018). The Custoza region encompasses the areas once occupied by the towns of Sommacampagna, Villafranca di Verona, Valeggio sul Mincio, Peschiera del Garda, Lazise, Castelnuovo del Garda, Pastrengo, Bussolengo, and Sona. History of Custoza wine appellation The Custoza happily combines both modern and traditional cuisine. It pairs nicely with a variety of meals due to its adaptability; Monte VeroneseWe also have the oddity Lambrusco, a wonderful traditional sparkling red wine that's just perfect with the local cuisine, a bolognese. Local culture blends with winemaking to produce the “uniqueness” of Custoza wines. Bricolo says: “The culture and wisdom of our producers in knowing how to create a special wine with the art of blending indigenous grapes grown in a unique terroir, where the morainic soils combine with a Mediterranean climate, is our uniqueness.”

Pale lemon yellow, with pear, and citrus aromatics, and some fresh apple. Palate has some textural weight, being slightly oily, with some ripe pear, then crisp apple and citrus on the finish, which is a touch salty, dry and gently phenolic. This is a bright, good-value, unoaked, fresh white with some character. Although it may be paired with many other foods, custoza wine is typically served with fish. The best pairings include raw prawns, tuna or swordfish carpaccio, octopus, and baby octopus, but pasta and risotto topped with fish sauce also work nicely. Pairings of the territory

THE CUSTOZA WINE

was a complex year, we had to face it with all our commitment and will,” says president Roberta Bricolo. “Despite this, it was a positive year in which knowledge of Custoza wine and the perception of its value grew. The pile-dwelling period in the Pacengo region of Peschiera is when the domestication of vines in the Custoza DOC area is first known. The Civic Museum of Natural History in Verona is home to bread, wheat, barley, grapevine, fig, and other plant remains that were discovered with the plant remains. A portion of the municipality of Sommacampagna, famed for two battles fought there during the wars of the Italian Risorgimento, is referred to as Custoza when discussing the region's wine production in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Custoza wine received the DOC-regulated designation of origin on February 8, 1971, and the Consortium for the Protection of White Custoza wine was established the following year. Ideal Terroir of the Custoza wine appellation As with the ‘straight’ Custoza, there really isn’t an issue around vintages. We’ve been raving about this particular wine since the 2013 vintage. You could buy a case of the 2021 (which is what I most recently tasted) and drink a bottle a year and I’d put money on the prediction that every time you taste it, the wine will be glorious. In fact, I’d like nothing better than to taste a vertical of this wine. It is worth way more than twice the price it commands. Sip for sip, it’s even more insanely under-priced than their estate Custoza. The winery’s vineyards are among the most extensive in Verona covering 137 hectares, which they own, and another 68 that are leased. Garganega, Trebbianello, Bianca Fernanda, Malvasia Toscana, Riesling Italico, Sauvignon, Pinot Bianco, Chardonnay, and Cross Manzoni are some of the white-fruit grapes planted in the Custoza region. Ancient Greek vines known as Garganega were brought to Sicily and given the name Grecanico d'Or. It can produce dry, sweet, still, and sparkling wines and is quite adaptable to various soil types and winemaking processes. A vine called Trebbianello, also referred to as Tocai Friulano or Tocai Italico, proclaims at least two centuries of Italian heritage. Although the exact origin of the Cortese vine, also known as Bianca Fernanda in the Custoza region, is unknown, it is thought to have originated in the provinces of Alessandria, Novara, and Tortonese. Types of Custoza Wines Custoza DOC