This forum should be renamed to Sparkling_radio to be right.
I agree with Alberto but I'm called to be more precise.
Please, PLEASE! don't compare "spumante" with "champagne" (french or not).
These are two completely different liquids.
Spumante is a best quality sparkling wine produced with one or maximum
two mixed together highest quality white young wines and those
controlled origins are the North-Eastern Italian regions (precisely Veneto).
Champagne is a drink made by mixing of "some wines", aromas, sugar,
alcohol and fruit-syrups!, invented and very drunk in the mid twentieths
in France.
So the only common thing is the fact they are both sold in bottles!
Spumante's taste can be different from year to year depending on the
physical characteristics of the grapes used during every year of
production. It is positively not a "dead wine" so it is best drunk young.
Best quality Champagne, is a beverage offering a constant TASTE! If you
drink a Dom-Perignon "Cordon Rouge" today and the same product in twenty
years you will notice it has exactly the same characteristics.
This can be achieved only with the help of expert "noses" doing this
job for their life for the same brand.
Be aware, I'm not saying Champagne is bad and Spumante is good!
Simply they are completely different things and shouldn't be compared at
all.
Hic!
Andreas
73s de IK2WQI
P.S. I have been at Cinzano (in the Asti suburbs) yesterday in the
afternoon, turning back from the sea, and even if Sunday the well known
Cinzano factory w ere open to thirsty guys as I'm. A couple of boxes (6
bottles each) of that good Riserva juice are now in my bar. So we are
equipped now. Let me know the exact kind of noodle (linguine,
fettuccine, spaghetti...) and instructions on lashing so I can apply to
Alberto!
Alberto I2PHD wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> oh no, the sweet "Asti" is mostly for children and women...
> Cinzano Riserva is a good one, though, as you say, not the absolute best,
> but a good compromise price-wise.
>
> IMHO the best Italian "spumante" is that produced in the zone around the
> town of Brescia, the Franciacorta zone (the name is misleading, though it
> contains the characters Francia, it has nothing to do with the country of
> Robespierre.
> Franciacorta means "Free Court", a zone of free market [in the middleage]).
> One of the best brands of that zone is the Ferrari Brut (no relationship with
> racing cars), which, IMHO, is much better than any French "champagne", not
> to mention the mix of water, sugar and some alcohol produced by the
> Christian Brothers in California... :-)
>
> HNY
> 73 Alberto I2PHD
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>
>
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