FRIZZANTE offers a selection of our favourite sparkling wines. Whether you are after a formidable apéritif, a rustic pétillant or col fondo for the table, or something truly special when celebration is in order, you’ll find it here.
JACOPO STIGLIANO
Pinzimonio 2024
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
This sparkling wine is mostly Pignoletto, along with a little Albana and Trebbiano, from a parcel of thirty year old vines planted over sand and clay in Valsamoggia. The grapes were pressed directly and fermented in concrete vats, before being put into bottle with a little must from the same harvest. The result is golden, vibrant col fondo that in the regional tradition is crisp, dry and delicious. A wine we first enjoyed for aperitivo in Jacopo’s vineyard alongside pinzimonio, it works nicely with salumi or a good hunk of cheese too.
Pignoletto, Albana, Trebbiano
QUARTICELLO
Cascinaronchi Brut Nature 2022
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
As always this is the most complex and nuanced of Roberto’s sparkling wines. This vintage is composed entirely of Spergola, refermented in the bottle with a little must from the same harvest and disgorged after two years on the lees. The result is a crisp, clean wine with delicate bubbles and complex notes of citrus and minerals that punches well above its weight.
Pignoletto
LE COSTE
Pizzicante Rosato 2022
Lazio, Italy
This vibrant sparkling rosato is made from Aleatico, destemmed and fermented on the skins for just a few hours before being pressed off to vats and then bottle to finish fermentation. It was disgorged after two years on the lees, producing a wine of gorgeous colour and fine bubbles, which carry refreshing notes of blood orange, pink peppercorn and rose.
Aleatico