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750ml
Bottle:
$28.00
Ruby-red color with purple hues. A suitably intense bouquet of red berries and syrupy fruit with traces of tobacco...
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La Gironda Di Galandrino
Varietal: Brachetto
The hilly and cool region of Piedmont in northern Italy has been home to wineries using Brachetto grapes for centuries. The Brachetto varietal grape has long been a popular grape in Italy and elsewhere in the world, as it is a particularly light bodied red wine varietal, prized for its gorgeous and pretty summery flavors of strawberries. Due to the light tannin content in the grapes' skins, Brachetto grapes produce silky smooth wines which are extremely drinkable, and easy to match with a range of mild food. The grapes are usually used in the production of still red wines, but it is not uncommon to find sparkling wines which predominantly make use of this fine varietal. Indeed, Brachetto grapes are used to make one of the finest red sparkling wines of Italy, often referred to as the 'red Moscato d'Asti' due to its similar features with this famous fizzy wine.
Region: Piedmont
The beautiful region of Piedmont in the north west of Italy is responsible for producing many of Europe's finest red wines. Famous appellations such as Barolo and Barbaresco are the envy of wine-makers all over the world, and attract plenty of tourism as a result of their traditional techniques and the stunning setting they lie in. The region has a similar summer climate to nearby French regions such as Bordeaux, but the rest of their year is considerably colder, and far drier as a result of the rain shadow cast by the Alps. The wineries which cover much of Piedmont have, over many generations, mastered how to make the most of the Nebbiolo, Dolcetto and Barbera grapes which thrive here, and nowadays are beginning to experimenting with many imported varietals to increase the region's range and meet international demand.
Country: Italy
For several decades in the mid to late twentieth century, Italy's reputation for quality wines took a fairly serious blow. This was brought about partly due to lack of regulation in certain regions, and too much regulation in others. This led to several wineries in the beautiful and highly fertile region of Tuscany making the bold move to work outside of the law, which they saw as responsible for the drop in quality in Tuscan wines. They believed that they had the expertise and the generations of experience necessary with which to make truly excellent, world class wines, and set about doing just that. These 'Super Tuscans', as they came to be known, quickly inspired the rest of Italy to improve their produce, and now, Italian wine producers in the twenty-first century are widely recognised to be amongst the best in the world. Regulation and law began to change, and wine drinkers across the globe woke up to the outstanding wines coming out of Italy, which are continuing to improve and impress to this day.